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Jerry Junior

CHAPTER XVIII
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He isn't really a donkey-man nor a Magyar nor an orphan nor an organ-grinder nor--any of the things he has said he was.

He is just a plain American man and an _awful liar_!" The young man held out his hand and Mr.Wilder shook it.
"Jerry," he said, "I don't need to tell you how pleased--" "'Jerry!'" echoed Constance.

"Father, you knew ?" "Long before you did, my dear." There was a suggestion of triumph in Mr.
Wilder's tone.
"Jerry, you told." There was reproach, scorn, indignation in hers.
Jerry spread out his hands in a gesture of repudiation.
"What could I do?
He asked my name the day we climbed Monte Maggiore; naturally, I couldn't tell him a lie." "Then we haven't fooled anybody.

How unromantic!" "Oh, yes," said Jerry, "we've fooled lots of people.

Gustavo doesn't understand, and Giuseppe, you noticed, looked rather dazed.


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