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Cass had become embarrassed over calling up her boarding-house and having Tracy or Wilma answer, "Who do you want? Who? Oh. Who wants her? Oh!" followed by a shadow of a giggle, and a half- heard: "It's the Judge again. Can you beat it!" So in early July, to invite her to the Svithiod Summer Festival, at which he would be the guest-speaker and say a lot of enthusiastic things about Swedish-Americans, which might impress a girl with a fancy for high words, he wrote a note to her.
She answered, and for the first time he saw her writing.