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safely. I went to speak to you about matters
but I saw that you were in no condition, or
mood, for that matter. Why, Jack, I never was
where anybody was intoxicated before, and I
think it was _terrible!"_"  "  "

"Oh, Betty, it wasn't as bad as that. You're
just a little goose about it. You'll get used to
it."

"Never. Do you think I'd risk having my
senses half gone, or all gone, and not know,
scarcely, what was happening? -- besides getting
so you have to have it! And how did it happen
that you didn't know I was gone? Just be-
cause _you_ didn't know what _was_ happening."

"Ye-ah. That's the reason I wouldn't come
out to your house. I thought your father might
meet me with a gun."

"Please don't joke about it."

Betty went on to explain that if there had
been any older people there at the time, she
would have asked to be sent home and made
"proper leave-takings." She described briefly
her trip home, her satin slippers muddy from
the "April shower in May," her talk with her
mother, and what her parents thought about the
matter.

"You see, Jack, in the little town we came
from there was a nice boy next door that we

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