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The Craze of Christina. 61 put your foot intoit! She'll give out that you have fallen a victim to Maud!”’ “Well, no, I think not,’ replied Clifford quickly, ‘“‘because | am going to ask you to save me from that danger by coming too!”’ This young man was really beginning to learn a thing or two, you see. Mrs. Bruhen put her head a little on one side. ‘‘Oh, well, that’s nice of you certainly.’’ ‘You see you would help meso much, Mrs. Bruhen. You—you might do the honors for me, you know, if you would be so kind?”’ Nora beamed all over at this. “Of course I will, my dear boy’’—she was fond of calling young men her ‘“‘dear boys’’— ‘fand I'll be there first, before the Ommaneys | come, to receive them;’’ and she added to her- self, ‘‘and if that doesn’t rile Mrs. Ommaney and teach the matchmaking old woman a lesson, I don’t know what will!”’ ‘*T thought too of asking Miss Ashley—and— and any friend she might have staying with her,’’ added Clifford a little awkwardly. This rather took the bloom off the peach for Mrs. Bruhen. For a moment she looked dis- concerted, then she laughed. “‘Oh, I see what it is; you want to give a reg- ular tea fight, I suppose?”’ Comichooksnco