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Wel , I thought we were done for. What a magnificent set-ting you have arranged for yourself, Miss Stoddard, said Colonel Edgecombe, and if you excuse the compli-ment, the gem is worthy of its setting. After the-336-show Cliff said he was starved, because he hadn't had his supper, what with chasing the theatertickets and the tuck and al , and she took him to the Club Dover to have a bite to eat. You know as wel as I do that the plain people of your state don't want their free-dom of choice curtailed by any Washington snoopers and-506-busybodies.

They were dancing next to Reggie and Pat hemmed in by a swaying blur of couples. We're ten years be-hind the rest of the world in flyin' and we've got to catch up. He was a tal thin man of about thirty with some splashes of white in his thick black hair and a long pale face. Bingham, who was striding around in oldfashioned carpetslippers with his shirt open at the neck and a piec