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he was taking a pencil and paper from his
pocket
Photographs he said wetting the end Of
the pencil. In the society columns"
"What?" cried Mirth and Joy and Merri.
"Of us?"
In the society columns" said Uncle All.
Wen have the young fellows focking hither,"
and he jotted down "photos," and said lad
vertise-that's the way to do it. In bathing
suits? Playing tennis with your-ah-feet in
the air? We might manage"
Manage what, Uncle Alf?" the girls asked
him anxiously
"Newsreels in the movies. The Three Charm
ing Daughters of Prof. Day playing tennis 1
could hire three young fellows to bat the balls
around with you"
Two Uncle ALT" said Joy. There aren't
any triples in tennis"
I'D better get three" said Uncle ALI. "One
might not come
Wen get them" said Merri quickly. Leave
that to US Uncle Alfred" for after all it was
better to have the Calvert boy and the Benson
boy and the Gordon boy if there had to be
boys They were so used to being snuboed-
After dinner that night-a long time after
dinner-Mrth and Joy and Merri met in Joys
room They were three extremely serious girls.
THE worst of it is" said Merri, dear Uncle
Alf is SO earnest when he has ideas. He gets
of horrid publicity, and we're not really Gig
arettes or automobile tires or hams after all"
Hell have interviews about us in the pa
pers," said Joy unjoyfuy.
We can't do anything about it at all" said
Mirth. Wen be advertised like new gaSo-
line"
"Unless--" said Merri thoughtfully. Il
suppose we'll have to get married sometime,
any way. 1 don't see any other way to head
off Uncle Aft.
The next morning Uncle ALI fourished
schedule of publicity operations he had pre-
pared and read it to Joy and Mirth and Merri.
He wanted to know the name of the best pho
tographer, and he went in his big car to ind
him, and Joy and Mirth and Merri took turns
at the telephone, conversing with three young
men. An hour or so later Merri sat on the
lawn near the tennis court, rather near Bobble
Calvert.
Don't you think life is gray, Bobbie?" Merr1
asked. Don't you think life is just gray
old thing?"
III say it isl" the Calvert boy agreed. With
out you, 1 mean. Looking forward to years
without you to brighten them and all that sort
of thing
Now, you're going to ask me to marry you"
accused Merri. That's what you're going to
do, isn't it?'
Il say, that's a thought! Why don't you
marry me- Merri? Because, look-I love you,
and you do like me a lot. Please, Merri dear!"
"Oh, all right! I suppose I'll never have any
peace until do" and she clapped her hands.
from beyond the lilac hedge where Joy
] and the Benson boy had strolled came the
sound of joys hand clapping once, but no
sound yet came from where Mirth and the
Gordon boy had retreated to the wistaria arbor.
Lets go tell them," cried the Calvert boy,
but Merri held him back.
Not yet, please, Bobbie dear" said Merrt,
but even as she spoke she heard Mirth's hand
clap Now We'll CO." she cried, and she took
Bobbie's hand and ran, for she knew every
thing was all right with her dear sisters and
that Uncle ALI need not advertise
When Uncle ALI returned with his photog-
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