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The telephone in the hall rang startlingly, unexpectedly.
"Let me go, Milly."
"But who in the world! n.o.body knows we're--"
He was at the telephone. "Who? Who? Oh." He turned: "It's Miz' Merz. She says her little Minnie went by at six and saw a light in the house.
She--h.e.l.lo! What?... She says she wants to know if she's to save time for you at the end of the month for the April cleaning."
Mrs. Brewster took the receiver from him: "The twenty-fifth, as usual, Miz' Merz. The twenty-fifth, as usual. The attic must be a sight."
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