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Bits of the afternoon's gossip reached him; the comments on Delight's
dress and her flowers; the reasons certain people had not come. But
nothing of the subject nearest his heart. At the end of the meal
Delight got up.
"I'm going to call up Mr. Spencer," she said. "He has about fifty
dollars' worth of thanks coming to him."
"I didn't see Graham," said Mrs. Haverford. "Was he here?"
Delight stood poised for flight.
"He couldn't come because he had enough to do being two places at
once. His mother said he was working, and Mrs. Hayden said he had
taken Marion to the Country Club. I don't know why they take the
trouble to lie to me."


CHAPTER XIII
Christmas day of the year of our Lord, 1916, dawned on a world
which seemed to have forgotten the Man of Peace. In Asia Minor the
Allies celebrated it by the capture of a strong Turkish position at
Maghdadah. The Germans spent it concentrating at Dead Man's Hill;
the British were ejected from enemy positions near Arras.


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