Now it was truly a garden of spices . `` Oh , it is so beautiful here , '' he told Miss Avery , who sat and looked at his revels with a hungry expression in her lovely eyes . `` I wish I could come often . '' `` Why ca n't you ? '' said Miss Avery . The two looked at each other with sly intelligence . `` I could come whenever Aunt Augusta shuts me up in the blue room , '' said Jims . `` Yes , '' said Miss Avery . Then she laughed and held out her arms . Jims flew into them . He put his arms about her neck and kissed her scarred face . `` Oh , I wish you were my aunt , '' he said . Miss Avery suddenly pushed him away . Jims was horribly afraid he had offended her . But she took his hand . `` We 'll just be chums , Jims , '' she said . `` That 's really better than being relations , after all . Come and have tea . '' Over that glorious tea-table they became life-long friends . They had always known each other and always would .
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