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"Fell for her, did you?"

"Did I? That was ten years ago, and I'm not sure I'm over it yet."

"Probably that's the reason," said the city editor, drily. "Go and see

her, and get over it. Get her views on the flapper and bobbed hair, for

next Sunday. Smith would be crazy about it."

He finished his coffee.

"You might ask, too, what she thinks has become of Judson Clark," he

added. "I have an idea she knows, if any one does." Bassett stared at

him.

"You're joking, aren't you?"

"Yes. But it would make a darned good story."