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summer eve. I come in response to your cali, and although I cannot show them to you I can tell you where they all are and what they are doing. Would like me to tell you a story about them?" Would I like to be told about For a time I looked at him in speechless amazement, and then I cried out, "Oh, yes; tell me about my classmates." The little man floated towards me and perched himself on the edge of the hammock, clasped his hands around his knees, and swaying back and forth he began in his jerking way: ""The first scene is the home of a prominent doctor in Washington-r- the home of Edna Adkins __. It is the night of a great ball. The furnished salon is brilliant with myriad lights with masses of exquisite flowers, ing wealth and high social position. The guests all COme, and Edna moves in their midst, the central figure of the assembly. She is so charming and self-possessed that the guests have to acknowledge that even in their diplomatic city there is no hostess better versed the art of entertain- ing." 0< Harry classmates him of being fickle, who dares accuse fidelity when after all these long years of he is still devoted to the little dark-haired m Westminster. Perhaps you know about the numerous boxes of he used to send her. This custom to be a mania with Not a confectionery store on Lexington street, in He is not aver) g-ood business manager, for although thousands of pound" of are manufactured every year he never has any to sell. You may go into store and ask for whatsoever kind yon will. you will always receive the same answer, 'I am very sorry,' bowing profoundly, '1 have just sent the last pound away.' Oue would think he would grow more sensible with his years, but he is a hopeless case." The quaint little man swayed back and forth ill the breeze and laughed in queer little jerks. "Yon will find Beulah Day in Rome to-day. She has reached the lofty f