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IN the Toy Department they naturally lingered a little--which one of them started the lingering it would be difficult to decide. Probably it was by general consent. It is almost impossible not to linger in a Toy Department. They lingered long enough in this one for a lady, who seemingly had just remembered something, to accost Mr. Larkin.
"Have you something for a mechanical boy?" she asked, all of a breath.