She looked back at me with a real sweet smile. “Good-bye, Mr. Henderson,” she said. “I’m awfully sorry, but Mr. Williams and I have to go to a committee meeting right away. I wish you would come again. I think it is lovely to meet a young man who is so fond of children.”

Wouldn’t kids be poison to you after that? Just think, the best looking of the two going off with a white livered guy like that! If I had been full she would have taken more notice of me. I was so sore that I didn’t know that the other girl was talking to me until I heard:

“So if you’ll kindly excuse me I’ll go and attend to it now. Mr. Williams has so much to do, and I like to help him all that I can. Don’t you think he is a splendid young man, Mr. Henderson? And such a worker!”

“I think you’re all a bunch of workers,” I said. But she just smiled and said, “Oh, thank you! Good-bye!”

No more Sunday School for me, Billy. It’s too costly for the returns.

Yours,

Jack.

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