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I'd like to ask if you think of me in that way, too."
O Lord, _Lord!_ Here was another one!
"No," he said positively. "Think of you as I do of Fifi! No, no! No, I
do not."
"I don't mean to ask if you think of me as you do of Fifi. Of course I
am sure you don't. I only mean--let me put it this way: Do you believe
that I have your--interests at heart, and would like to do anything I
could to help you?"
He thought this over warily. Doubtless doomed Smathers would have smiled
to note the slowness with which his great rival's mind threshed out such
a question as this.
"If you state your proposition in that way, I reply, tentatively, yes."
"Then can you spare me half an hour to-night after supper?"
"For what purpose?"
"For you and me," she smiled. "I'd like you to come and see me, at my
house, where we could really have a little talk. You see, I know Colonel
Cowles very well indeed, and I have read the _Post_ for oh, many, many
years! In this way I know something about the kind of articles people
here like to read, and about--what is needed to write such articles.


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