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The Early Bird

CHAPTER XVII
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"I didn't expect to find you here." "I did not expect to be here," she laughed.

"I just started out for a stroll and happened to land in this beautiful spot." "Beautiful is no name for it," he replied with sudden vast enthusiasm, and ran up the path to help her down over a steep place.
For a moment, in the wonderful mystery of the touch of her hand and the joy of her presence, he forgot everything else.

What was this strange phenomenon, by which the mere presence of one particular person filled all the air with a tingling glow?
Marvelous, that's what it was! If Miss Josephine had any of the same wonder she was extremely careful not to express it, nor let it show, especially after yesterday's conversation, so she immediately talked of other things; and the first thing which came handy was another reference to the beautiful valley.
"You know, it is a wonder to me," she said, "that no one has built a summer resort here.

I think it ever so much more charming than either Hollis Creek or Meadow Brook." "Do you believe in telepathy ?" asked Sam, almost startled.

"I do.


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