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Buck presents his sweetheart, Mary, with a novel; and the story, unknown to Buck, contains a character described in terms that exactly fit Mary. Or, the novel which Buck, by mistake, wraps and sends to Mary was a gift to Buck from a former sweetheart, her name and his on the flyleaf, and various love passages marked. Or,

there is something left by chance between the pages of the book at which Mary takes offense. Or, some of the incidents of the story which Buck has not read, approximate events in the affair of Buck and Mary with slighting references to

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