after it, and I don't want to! Bother those little suitors of mine!"

Miss Hugonin rose, and went out from her own rooms, carrying a bunch

of keys, across the hallway to the room in which Frederick R. Woods

had died. It was his study, you may remember. It had been little

used since his death, but Margaret kept her less important papers

there--the overflow, the flotsam of her vast philanthropic and

educational correspondence.

And there she found Billy Woods.

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His back was turned to the door as she entered. He was staring at a