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When she could get about she took to calling him up daily from a
drug-store at a near-by corner, and once he met her after dark and
they walked a few blocks together. She was still weak, but she was
spiritualized, too. He liked her a great deal that night.
"Do you know you've loaned me over a hundred dollars, Graham?" she
asked.
"That's not a loan. I owed you that."
"I'll pay it back. I'm going to start to-morrow to look for work,
and it won't cost me much to live."
"If you send it back, I'll buy you another watch!"
And, tragic as the subject was, they both laughed.
"I'd have died if I hadn't had you to think about when I was sick,
Graham. I wanted to die - except for you."
He had kissed her then, rather because he knew she expected him to.
When they got back to the house she said:
"You wouldn't care to come up?"
"I don't think I had better, Anna."
"The landlady doesn't object. There isn't any parlor. All the
girls have their callers in their rooms.


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