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for the Sloanes.  We arrived there to find Grandma, Aunt Maggie Bromley, Aunt Emmie and Emily playing cards in the hall.  Evidently from their manners we saw they knew nothing.  Emily took my arm and we went off into the library where Ethel Kissem was, and then I could keep quiet no longer. 

"Have you heard - have you heard about Alice?" I asked.

"What" they both asked in the same breath.
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"Why -" I began and then stopped short.

"What have you heard?  What do you know?" asked Emily, and I handed her the telegram for answer. 

"We have know about this for a long time," said Ethel, and with that I had to be content until we got up to Emily's room.  There we all three sat on the sofa very near together and Emily began her story.

I will tell you as briefly as possible what she told

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