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The Turmoil

CHAPTER XXII
9/18

You shouldn't have--you ought to know better.

What did--" "I only waited about twelve seconds," she laughed.

"I'd just got here." "But to come all this way and to this part of town in the dark, you--" "I was in this part of town already," she said.

"At least, I was only seven or eight blocks away, and it was dark when I came out, and I'd have had to go home alone--and I preferred going home with you." "It's pretty beautiful for me," said Bibbs, with a deep breath.

"You'll never know what it was to hear your laugh in the darkness--and then to--to see you standing there! Oh, it was like--it was like--how can I TELL you what it was like ?" They had passed beyond the crowd now, and a crossing-lamp shone upon them, which revealed the fact that again she was without her furs.


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