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home was not in what she called the

“ real country, but In a citified country

place: where things would be trim and
stylish.” Wilifred had no taste for

suburbs. But as they drove from the

station to Del haven it was over a genu­
ine old country road lying among the

varied charms of fertile green fields,

woods, and scrubby pastures. The

scrubbier they were, the better they
pleased Wilifred.

The new house pleased her too,

bavins: been built in a generous and
o
o
comfortable style, with many city con­
veniences, of which, after all, she never

complained. The coveted stall once

hers, she had no objection to the pretty
room with its graceful furnishings,—

with its shelves of books and dainty

toilet articles.

The day this room vvas first occu-