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"There! " said Jane Ray, turning on one last golden electric bulb cunningly concealed. "I've used every device I know to make the showing tell. _Is_ it effective? _Does_ it all count, Mrs. Burns? I've studied it so much I don't know any more."
Mrs. Redfield Pepper Burns stood beside Miss Ray at one end of the long shop -- a shop no longer -- and looked down it silently for a full minute before she spoke. Then: