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The Great Love Experiment.
For a full half minute after the other's words Philip stared in astonishment.

Then, with a joyful shout, he suddenly reached out his hand across the stove.
"By thunder," he cried, "you're from home!" "Home!" exclaimed the other.

There was a startled note in his voice.
"You're--you're a Chicago man ?" he asked, staring strangely at Philip and gripping his hand at the same time.
"Ever hear of Steele--Philip Egbert Steele?
I'm his son." "Good Heavens!" drawled the doctor, gazing still harder at him and pinching the ice from his beard, "what are you doing up here ?" "Prodigal son," grinned Philip.

"Waiting for the calf to get good and fat.