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`` It is n't the end of us , you know , '' she concluded . `` You 're coming to see me in New York . '' Miss Gibbons smiled with good-humored skepticism at that . Rose telegraphed Galbraith that morning , and she took the noon train for St. Louis . She needed a day or two there to make the modest supplements to her wardrobe that her savings permitted . BOOK FOUR The Real Adventure John Williamson 's doctor packed him off to Carlsbad just about the time that Rose achieved the conquest of Centropolis -LRB- along in April , 1914 , that was -RRB- .