gasp when I said I was born a boy, started to say some- thing then was silent again. She laughed at my accident with my only pants and some other incidents but was very serious and thoughtful all through. When I finished it I said. "I can see now, dear, that I should have told you and your parents right at the first that I was not the real girl you thought I was. But please try to understand that it was not on purpose. I honestly have not thought

of myself at all as a boy for years, and never think of having to explain."

She said, "Yes, I can understand that, for even now I can't seem to get it through my head that you are really not a girl. You must be one of the ones that I have read about who are intended to be girls but some- how get the wrong body." I replied that I had thought so too. But the shock yesterday made me find out that I am a man too. You know that Betty loves you like one of her sisters. Well, Jack found out that he started to love you the first time he saw you. He loves you more than any other girl in the world and always will, and wants you for his wife. Is there any chance at all Dear that you can get to love Jack as well as Betty"?

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"Jack, I suppose that is what I should call you to-night,' she said. "I can't answer you now. You have me so confused and mixed up, I can hardly think. Please don't think that I blame you the least little bit for not telling us before you are a boy. But it means my whole life to me for if I marry I stay married. I must have time to think. I don't think I will sleep much tonight after this.'

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"I am sure I won't either, I replied.

"I know, Betty or Lather Jack, I promise you I won't act girlish and silly and keep you waiting. Betty is too dear to me for that. Perhaps I can transfer my love," she said. So I went home with a bit more hope than I had had.

I got through the next day somehow.

Luckily I had One minute I would be full of hope from what she had said, the next one down

no important things to decide.

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