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"And so you are sending me
away!" mused Miles, dolefully.
Hunter stared and laid down his pen
again.
"Sending you away? Of course I'm not! If you care to stay"
"Oh, it's all right," Miles assured him, sorrowfully. "If there's somebody else coming I can go, I suppose. But"
"Who said anything about anybody coming?" asked his host, exasperatedly.
"Then you're merely tired of me?" said Miles. "I'm sure, if I'd known that earlier"
"Oh, go to the dickens!" growled Hunter. "Stay if you want to!"
"Not where I am not wanted," replied Miles, stiffly.
"Look here!" bellowed Hunter. "When I asked you out here you
