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138 PEEP AT OUR- NEIGHBORS.

if you had shaken your head. It wasa
great deal too near, at_any rate.”’

s¢ But I didn’t make you think I had
not taken the melons.”

‘‘No thanks to you for that. You
wanted to make me think so, and you
tried hard enough to bring it about.”

I began to feel that I had not much
ground left to stand upon. She saw it—
she could read me, through and through,
at one glance—and she added,

‘¢No, dear Frank, you are wrong, I’m
sure, now, you are wrong. You have
not thought much of the matter before.
You have not looked upon it in this .
light; and I don’t think that you meant