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`` Cutting up , '' Ida Barton answered with a smile . `` We 're the village cut-ups , you know , '' was Lee Barton 's assurance . * * * * * That evening , the evening 's engagement cancelled , found the two , in a big chair , in each other 's arms . `` Sonny sails to-morrow noon , '' she announced casually and irrelevant to anything in the conversation . `` He 's going out to the Malay Coast to inspect what 's been done with that lumber and rubber company of his . '' `` First I 've heard of his leaving us , '' Lee managed to say , despite his surprise . `` I was the first to hear of it , '' she added .