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down to the town and found three pairs of lovely slippers, with the high built-up soles and heels of the times, a skirt and sweater, three dresses and a jacket, and such accessories as purses, hankies, and a pair of really wild sun-glasses together with "shimmys" and hose of real

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- and a formidable corset that laced up the back!!

"But But- But" I stammered!

"What goes here?" A s if I did not suspect! "We can never get a girl for the act that can do it as well as you do. JESSICA, drawled Connie, tantalizingly! And you LOVE it, I know you do! And you can't go running around in boy's clothes, now can you? Not when you are a Show Girl? And, be- sides, you must get used to being a girl to act like one! So---it's girl's clothes for you for the season, Darling! And look here, especially for you!' Unwrapping a pack-

age she held up two lovely silk nighties. I blushed! "How cute" exclaimed Aunt Effie! "Oh, this is going to be real fun, having another girl in the family". With that she left the trailer, saying "Take care of her Connie". Which Connie proceeded to do, with unbound enthusiasm!

"You know, Jessica", she began, "I have been very lonely for a girl friend of my own age, while Mother and Dad are the most wonderful parents ever, I have been an only child since they found me as a baby and took me in- to their hearts as their own".

"But", I interupted, "I always thought you were my blood cousin, I never dreamed that you were not".

"I always thought so too, until last Christmas", Connie said. "I found some baby things and a gold locket in an old traveling case at that time, and I asked Mother about them. She told me the story, of how she and Dad found me abandoned near the show lot, and having no children of their own, took me in and raised me own. No real Mother could have loved me more, nor could I love any real parent more than I do Mother and Dad".

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"Then you don't know who your real parents are, Connie?" I asked. "The only clue is the locket", she replied. "The name Connie and the date November 1916, and the baby clothes that I was wearing. They are hand