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American romance of unorthodox development in 1884. A Philadelphia gentleman answers a lady's advertisement for a cultured correspondent censoriously but is drawn in, and eventually gains her consent to meeting him. It is arranged through her cousin in Atlantic City on the condition that the correspondence is never mentioned. Only when he proposes do they discover they have been victim's of her cousin's - and fiancee's - practical joke. The joke loses the cousin his fiancee - who marries her supposed correspondent. Change of lovers a little hurried but tale otherwise neat, light and breezy. Usual pleasant style tale though plot varied a bit. (PB)
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