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She did not return the glance, but caught her cheeks in the vise of her hands as if to stem the too quick flush. "Now you--you quit!" she cried, flashing her back upon him in quick pink confusion. "She gets mad yet," he said, his shoulders rising and falling in silent laughter. "Don't!" "Well," he said, clicking the door softly after him, "good night and sleep tight." "'Night, Vetsy." Upon the click of that door Mrs. Kaufman leaned softly forward in her chair, speaking through a scratch in her throat. "Ruby!" With her flush still high, Miss Kaufman danced over toward her parent, then as suddenly ebbed in spirit, the color going. "Why, mommy, what--what you crying for, dearie? Why, there's nothing to cry for, dearie, that we're going off on a toot to-morrow. Honest, dearie, like Vetsy says, you're all nerves. I bet from the way Suss hollered at you to-day about her extra milk you're upset yet. Wouldn't I give her a piece of my mind, though! Here, move your chair, mommy, and let me pull down the bed." "I--I'm all right, baby. Only I just tell you it's enough to make anybody cry we should have a friend like we got in Vetsburg. I--I tell you, baby, they just don't come better than him. Not, baby? Don't be ashamed to say so to mama." "I ain't, mama! And, honest, his--his whole family is just that way. Sweet-like and generous. Wait till you see the way his sister and brother-in-law will treat us at the hotel to-morrow. And--and Leo, too." "I always say the day what Meyer Vetsburg, when he was only a clerk in the firm, answered my furnished-room advertisement was the luckiest day in my life." "You ought to heard, ma. I was teasing him the other day, telling him that he ought to live at the Savoy, now that he's a two-thirds member of the firm." "Ruby!" "I was only teasing, ma. You just ought to seen his face. Any day he'd leave us!" Mrs. Kaufman placed a warm, insinuating arm around her daughter's slim waist, drawing her around the chair-side and to her. "There's only one way, baby, Meyer Vetsburg can ever leave me and make me happy when he leaves." "Ma, what you mean?" "You know, baby, without mama coming right out in words." "Ma, honest I don't. What?" "You see it coming just like I do. Don't fool mama, baby." The slender lines of Miss Kaufman's waist stiffened, and she half slipped from the embrace. "Now, now, baby, is it wrong a mother should talk to her own baby about what is cl
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