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"Oh, Tommy!" she said. "It was just what I wanted you to do. It's

leaking a little, but that doesn't matter. Wasn't I telling you?

It's the little things that count. And you remembered."



Little things! She held the ensanguined head of Louis Devoe in her

white apron. Tiny streams of red widened on her apron and dripped

upon the floor. Her face was bright and tender.



"Little things, indeed!" I thought again. "The head-hunters are

right. These are the things that women like you to do for them."



Chloe came close to me. There was no one in sight. She looked tip at

me with sea-blue eyes that said things they had never said before.



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if I wish for them, and then I will love him till June. I will have

no knight in armor slaying his rival or killing dragons for me. You

please me very well, Tommy."



I stooped and kissed her. Then a moisture broke out on my forehead,

and I began to feel weak. I saw the red stains vanish from Chloe's

apron, and the head of Louis Devoe turn to a brown, dried cocoanut.



"There will be cocoanut-pudding for dinner, Tommy, boy," said Chloe,

gayly, "and you must come. I must go in for a little while."



She vanished in a delightful flutter.



Dr. Stamford tramped up hurriedly. He seized my pulse as though it

were his own property that I had escaped with.



"You are the biggest fool outside of any asylum!" index.html he said, angrily.

"Why did you leave your bed? And the idiotic things you've been

doing!--and no wonder, with your pulse going like a sledge-hammer."



"Name some of them," said I.



"Devoe sent for me," said Stamford. "He saw you from his window go to

old Campos' store, chase him up the hill with his own yardstick, and

then come back and make off with his biggest cocoanut."



"It's the little things that count, after all," said I.



"It's your little bed that counts with you just now," said the doctor.

"You come with me at once, or I'll throw up the case. 'You're as

loony as a loon."



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anything.



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lightness and bravado about him that deceived no one, but was useful

in his borrowing because it was so pitifully and perceptibly assumed.



This day I had coaxed from the cashier five shining silver dollars as

a grumbling advance on a story that the Sunday editor had reluctantly

accepted. So if I was not feeling at peace with the world, at least

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"I have," said I; and again I said, "I have," more loudly and

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"I don't want to borrow any," said Tripp, and I breathed again. "I

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