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168, ‘4 cerference, lasting fifteen minutes, is held between Doo and Kiss Tugple. “Catt get a dammed one to de a thing,” Doc complains. “Can you blame them?, Everyone who ever had a finger in the pie has got st burned. Look at me!” She extends her hands palns outward. "You should complaint" Loc laughs. "Well,I don't know,” she answers reflectively. “But I must be going.” She turns, and is about to leave the bindery when as if re- heersing an exit fram the atage, her lips part as if to speak. Doc's eyss follow he. A neat parcel] reposes upon the book pr Their eyes meet. & slight nod of Doc's head, indicating the parcel, is given affir- mation by Liss Tug;lets nod. No words pase as she makes her exit, and is lost te Doc's view. What, we wonder, is in that parcel?!