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DICK MAKES HIMSELF USEFUL.
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'I really think there's nothing else, Miss Day.'

She prepared to sit down, looking musingly out of the window at Smart's enjoyment of the rich grass. 'Nobody seems to care about me,' she murmured, with large lost eyes fixed upon the sky beyond Smart.

'Perhaps Mr. Shinar does,' said Dick, in the tone of a slightly injured man.

'Yes, I forgot—he does, I know.' Dick precipitately regretted that he had suggested Shinar, since it had produced such a miserable result as this.

'I'll warrant you'll care for somebody very much indeed another day, won't you, Mr. Dewy?' she continued, looking very feelingly into the mathematical centre of his eyes.

'Ah, I'll warrant I shall!' said Dick, feelingly too, and looking back into her

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