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said:
"
Can't you take my telegram?"
The youth looked over his shoulder and said, by his manner, not his
words:
"
Don't you think you could wait a minute, if you tried?"
However, he got the shoe tied at last, and came and took the telegram,
glanced over it, then looked up surprised, at Tracy. There was something
in his look that bordered upon respect, almost reverence, it seemed to
Tracy, although he had been so long without anything of this kind he was
not sure that he knew the signs of it.
The boy read the address aloud, with pleased expression in face and
voice.
"
"
"
"
The Earl of Rossmore! Cracky! Do you know him?"
Yes."
Is that so! Does he know you?"
Well--yes."
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