REDDY ARMSTRONG'S REFORMATION
"No, Reddy, you haven't."
"Haven't what?"
"I know—know all about it."
"You! you know about me?"
"I've known all along."
"All along! How?"
"All along, Reddy. Never mind how. Don't look down there."
"Betty, see here. Why haven't you sent—sent me away long ago?"
"Because—look up at me, Reddy—I knew that Hunter would bring you around all right; don't be so surprised."
He paused a moment, and then said: "Suppose—suppose he had not."
"But, Reddy, I know that you have stopped, or else you would not be telling me. While you were that other kind of a Reddy you didn't want me to know. You wouldn't even be angry when I flirted with"
"Listen to me, Betty. Betty, would you give me up now if I were to tell you that I had not reformed at all, and was only making a clean breast of it?"
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