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"Crystal Cave it is, then."
"Is that through Demopolis?"
Followed a scanning of maps.
"Sure! Here it is! See! Granite City. Mitchell. Demopolis. Crystal
Cave."
"Good Lord! Hester, you're not going to spend any time in that dump?"
"It's my home town," she replied, coldly. "The only relation I had is
buried there. It's nothing out of your way to drop me on the court-house
steps and pick me up as you drive back, I've been wanting to get there
ever since we're down here. Wanting to stop by your home town you
haven't seen in five years isn't unreasonable, is it?"
He admitted it wasn't, leaning to kiss her.
She turned to him a face soft, with one of the pouts he usually found
irresistible.
"Honey," she said, "what do you think?"
"What?"
"Chris is buying May that chinchilla coat I showed you in Meyerbloom's
window the day before we left."
"The deuce he is!" he said, letting go of her hand, but hers immediately
covering his.
"She's wiring her sister in the 'Girlie Revue' to go in and buy it for
her.


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