One night, George leaves the newspaper office at around eight o'clock. He is nervous and dazed. He walks down the dark alleyway cautiously and carefully. All day, he has been trying to decide to whether to embark on an adventure. He suddenly starts off without thinking. He is afraid that the adventure will not turn out as he hoped or that he will be too scared to go through with it.
George goes to Louise Trunnion's house, where he finds her at home. She asks him how he is so sure that she would want to go out with him, but she agrees to meet him outside the Williams' barn. George received a letter that morning from her that said, "I'm yours if you want me." He is annoyed that she is now pretending.....
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