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"I couldn't get back to the office last night," said Elsie, "and I tried to get you on the 'phone, but you weren't anywhere you ought to have been. " Her voice was a little reproachful, for she had really wanted to see him to communicate a wonderful piece of news.
"I suppose I wasn't," admitted King Kerry, smoothing his grey hair. There was something almost childlike about the millionaire when he was penitent, and Elsie's heart was very tender to him in such moments as these.