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`` Evening , Bonbright , '' she said , and gave him her hand . `` Let 's get down to business , '' Lightener said . `` Tell 'em , Bonbright . '' `` I 'm going to marry Ruth Frazer to-morrow noon , '' he said , boldly . Mrs. Lightener was amazed , then disappointed , for she had come to hope strongly that she would have this boy for a son . She liked him , and trusted in his possibilities . She believed he would be a husband to whom she could give her daughter with an easy heart ... .