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`` Ben , let 's cut out Mount Vernon , get off and go up to Ninety-sixth Street . I 'll go in alone and see if Gabrielle will not meet me this morning . I think she may , if you did not spoil everything by some crazy message . '' `` Why , Miss Tescheron will be down-town by this time ; it is after nine o'clock . '' `` That 's so . I do n't suppose any one but her mother would be home . '' He seemed perfectly satisfied to go with me after that .