“You blessed Posy-Face! do you know what this means to me?  It means that you care—­”

“No, I don’t, Bill!  I don’t care if you like all the girls in the world.  Only, you mustn’t like them better than you do me.”

“As if I could like anybody better than I do you!”

“And then we’re friends again?”

“Friends!”

“Yes, friends.  Don’t you want to be friends with me, Little Billee?”

“Apple Blossom, I want to be to you anything and everything that you will let me be.”

“Then we will be friends.  Chums and comrades and good, good friends.”

Patty put a little pink hand out from the big coat sleeve and Bill clasped it in his great warm hand.

“Chums,—­Apple Blossom,—­and comrades, and good, good friends!”

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