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continued Marmaduke. “I don’t want Dolly to know just at first, but I have set plans in motion for changing my name back to Forrest!”
“But you lose six thousand dollars a year!” I exclaimed.
“It does n’t matter. I am offered a New York partnership when the war is over and it won’t be very long before I make it up.”
“And what about your dear old uncle?”
“That hurts me, I confess. But I think if departed spirits know nothing of our doings, it does n’t matter, and if they know everything, uncle must have kept an eye on Mrs. Valentine and will understand.”
“I never thought of leaving the whole matter to ‘uncle,’” I observed.
“I’m not shifting the responsibility; I’m simply counting on him. I always counted on him and he always trusted me. If I could get him on a spiritual long-distance telephone, he would see that I cannot part an only daughter from her only mother.”
“Yes, I’ve often thought only children
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