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Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924

"Michael O'Halloran"

If you don't think like I do, and if you go and take----"
"Gracious Heaven Mickey, you don't think I'd try to take anything you
wanted, do you?" demanded Douglas.
"I don't know _what_ you'd do," said Mickey. "I only know what one Swell
Dame I struck wanted to do."
"Mickey," said Douglas, "when I don't know what you are thinking about, I
can't be of much help; but I'd give considerable if you felt that you had
come to trust me."
"Trust you? Sure I trust you, about myself. But this is----" cried Mickey.
"This is about some one else?" asked Douglas casually.
Mickey leaned forward, his elbows on his knees, his head bent with intense
thinking.
"Much as you are doing for me," he muttered, "if you really care, if it
makes a difference to you--of course I can _trust_ you, if you _don't_
think as I do!"
"You surely can!" cried Douglas Bruce. "Now Mickey, both of us are too
shaken to care for the country; take me home with you and let's have
supper together and become acquainted. We can't know each other on my
ground alone.


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