"If I only could!" exclaimed Cope, with a wan face,--convinced, youthfully,
that the trouble through which he was now striving must last indefinitely.
"I should be glad enough to get my mind on it, I'm sure."
He walked away to reconstruct a devastated privacy. "Arthur, I'm not quite
sure that I thank you," he said, later.
"H'm!" replied Lemoyne non-committally. "I hope," he added, more definitely
articulate, "that we're going to have a pleasanter life in our new
quarters. I'm getting mighty little pleasure--if you'll just understand me
--here!"
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_COPE, SAFEGUARDED, CALLS AGAIN_
If Cope came back from Freeford with the moral support of one family, Amy
Leffingwell came back from Fort Lodge with the moral support of another.
Hers was a fragmental family, true; but its sentiment was unanimous; she
had the combined support of a pleased mother and of an enthusiastic maiden
aunt.
Amy reached Churchton first, and it soon transpired through the house in
which she lived that she was engaged to Bertram Cope. Cope, returning two
days later, with Lemoyne, found his new status an open book to the world--
or to such a small corner of the world as cared to read.
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