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And perhaps Ruth had a thought for herself as well as for Agnes and Neale, since she had seen Luke, more than once, looking admiringly at the Boston girl.

“There, she’s as shiny as a new dishpan from the five and ten-cent store!” announced Neale, as he put the finishing touches to the Kenway automobile, two days later.

“And we’d better start,” suggested Ruth. “We don’t want Nally to have to come up in a taxicab.”

“Especially the kind of taxicabs at the Milton station,” laughed Agnes. “Will Hal be on the same train?”

“He said he would,” Ruth answered.

“I wonder what he’s like.”

A little later Miss Hastings, followed by the devoted Hal, alighted, the youth burdened with Nally’s bag as well as his own.

“Oh, Nally! So glad to see you!”

“It seems an age since we said good-by! How are you?”

“Oh, perfectly fine!” All traces of Nalbro’s lisping had vanished.

“You look splendid.”

“Like a nectarine!” chimed in Neale.

“Oh, hello, Neale! I didn’t see you!” called Nally.

“No, I didn’t think you’d recognize me without my mustache!” retorted the high-school lad, with a chuckle.