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as a whole. But she had made her decision, and she intended to stick to it.
She watched Gunboat step to the door, with his hat in his hand, come to a stop, and then step back to the table-end.
"Say," he said with a slightly self-conscious and not altogether heroic look on his face, "don't say anything to—to Miss Reamer about this, lady, if yuh don't mind. It's not that I've got anything to hide. But yuh know what women are!"
And, with an even more fraternal nod of the head, he passed out through the door with his peculiarly light and panther-like tread, and was gone.
