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ON the last day of February, Mrs. Dabney was surprised if not exhilarated by a visit from her two children in the little book-shop.

"It's the last day in the world that I should have thought you'd 'a' come out on," she told them, in salutation-and for comment they all glanced along the dark narrow alley of shelves to the street window. A gloomy