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The next day Chester Humphreys and Stella Russell sat talking together. They were sitting on the ground under a certain historic apple-tree, and the young man held the girl's very pretty hand in both his own.
"Stella mine," he said, "I don't like the idea of that new Lavinia taking the place of our Ladybird."