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To say that he was a good deal upset would not fully describe Rex's condition when he reached home and, declining lunch on the plea of a headache, went to his room. His head was aching with that wavy, trembling feeling, hard to combat, and every nerve was quivering with excitement.
"Let me rest a bit and get cool and I shall be able to think clearly, and know it was only a hallucination of my disordered brain," he thought, as he dashed the cold water over his face and head till his hair was dripping wet. "It was exactly that way with poor Nannie," he continued, as he tried to dry his hair and face. "She was thinking so much of Sandy and so afraid she should see him that she thought she did, while I-well, I wasn't thinking of Irene, but of the ridiculous thing I was doing to please a girl and what Tom would say if he knew it. I was not expecting to see her, but I did; or something very like half of her, even the little fancy comb stuck on one side of her hair was plain. I could not be mistaken."