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And
then
there
was
Robert
Kain
,
another
youth
--
very
tall
,
very
cheerful
and
very
ambitious
in
regard
to
her
,
who
was
connected
with
one
of
the
local
electric
company
's
branch
offices
,
but
his
position
was
not
sufficiently
lucrative
--
a
mere
entry
clerk
.
Also
he
was
too
saving
--
always
talking
about
his
future
.
And
again
,
there
was
Bert
Gettler
,
the
youth
who
had
escorted
her
to
the
dance
the
night
Clyde
first
met
her
,
but
who
was
little
more
than
a
giddy-headed
dancing
soul
,
one
not
to
be
relied
upon
in
a
crisis
like
this
.
He
was
only
a
shoe
salesman
,
probably
twenty
dollars
a
week
,
and
most
careful
with
his
pennies
.
But
there
was
Clyde
Griffiths
,
the
person
who
seemed
to
have
real
money
and
to
be
willing
to
spend
it
on
her
freely
.
So
ran
her
thoughts
swiftly
at
the
time
.
But
could
she
now
,
she
asked
herself
,
offhand
,
inveigle
him
into
making
such
an
expensive
present
as
this
?
She
had
not
favored
him
so
very
much
--
had
for
the
most
part
treated
him
indifferently
.
Hence
she
was
not
sure
,
by
any
means
.
Nevertheless
as
she
stood
there
,
debating
the
cost
and
the
beauty
of
the
coat
,
the
thought
of
Clyde
kept
running
through
her
mind
.
And
all
the
while
Mr.
Rubenstein
stood
looking
at
her
,
vaguely
sensing
,
after
his
fashion
,
the
nature
of
the
problem
that
was
confronting
her
.
"
Well
,
little
girl
,
"
he
finally
observed
,
"
I
see
you
'd
like
to
have
this
coat
,
all
right
,
and
I
'd
like
to
have
you
have
it
,
too
And
now
I
'll
tell
you
what
I
'll
do
,
and
better
than
that
I
ca
n't
do
,
and
would
n't
for
nobody
else
--
not
a
person
in
this
city
.
Bring
me
a
hundred
and
fifteen
dollars
any
time
within
the
next
few
days
--
Monday
or
Wednesday
or
Friday
,
if
the
coat
is
still
here
,
and
you
can
have
it
.
I
'll
do
even
better
.
I
'll
save
it
for
you
.
How
's
that
?
Until
next
Wednesday
or
Friday
.
More
'n
that
no
one
would
do
for
you
,
now
,
would
they
?
"
He
smirked
and
shrugged
his
shoulders
and
acted
as
though
he
were
indeed
doing
her
a
great
favor
.
And
Hortense
,
going
away
,
felt
that
if
only
--
only
she
could
take
that
coat
at
one
hundred
and
fifteen
dollars
,
she
would
be
capturing
a
marvelous
bargain
.
Also
that
she
would
be
the
smartest-dressed
girl
in
Kansas
City
beyond
the
shadow
of
a
doubt
.
If
only
she
could
in
some
way
get
a
hundred
and
fifteen
dollars
before
next
Wednesday
,
or
Friday
.
As
Hortense
well
knew
Clyde
was
pressing
more
and
more
hungrily
toward
that
ultimate
condescension
on
her
part
,
which
,
though
she
would
never
have
admitted
it
to
him
,
was
the
privilege
of
two
others
.
They
were
never
together
any
more
without
his
insisting
upon
the
real
depth
of
her
regard
for
him
.
Why
was
it
,
if
she
cared
for
him
the
least
bit
,
that
she
refused
to
do
this
,
that
or
the
other
--
would
not
let
him
kiss
her
as
much
as
he
wished
,
would
not
let
him
hold
her
in
his
arms
as
much
as
he
would
like
.
She
was
always
keeping
dates
with
other
fellows
and
breaking
them
or
refusing
to
make
them
with
him
.
What
was
her
exact
relationship
toward
these
others
?
Did
she
really
care
more
for
them
than
she
did
for
him
?
In
fact
,
they
were
never
together
anywhere
but
what
this
problem
of
union
was
uppermost
--
and
but
thinly
veiled
.
And
she
liked
to
think
that
he
was
suffering
from
repressed
desire
for
her
all
of
the
time
that
she
tortured
him
,
and
that
the
power
to
allay
his
suffering
lay
wholly
in
her
--
a
sadistic
trait
which
had
for
its
soil
Clyde
's
own
masochistic
yearning
for
her
.
However
,
in
the
face
of
her
desire
for
the
coat
,
his
stature
and
interest
for
her
were
beginning
to
increase
.
In
spite
of
the
fact
that
only
the
morning
before
she
had
informed
Clyde
,
with
quite
a
flourish
,
that
she
could
not
possibly
see
him
until
the
following
Monday
--
that
all
her
intervening
nights
were
taken
--
nevertheless
,
the
problem
of
the
coat
looming
up
before
her
,
she
now
most
eagerly
planned
to
contrive
an
immediate
engagement
with
him
without
appearing
too
eager
.
For
by
then
she
had
definitely
decided
to
endeavor
to
persuade
him
,
if
possible
,
to
buy
the
coat
for
her
.
Only
of
course
,
she
would
have
to
alter
her
conduct
toward
him
radically
.
She
would
have
to
be
much
sweeter
--
more
enticing
.
Although
she
did
not
actually
say
to
herself
that
now
she
might
even
be
willing
to
yield
herself
to
him
,
still
basically
that
was
what
was
in
her
mind
.
