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When Joe did not come home at the hour expected nobody was greatly surprised, his folks thinking that he and Fred had been detained. But as it grew later and later Mrs. Westmore began to worry.
"What can be keeping Joe? " she said to Harry. "Did he say anything to you about coming home so late?"