THE GIRL WITH
A MILLION -
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C H A P T E R X II,
A t Oetend the pretty widow showed
signs o f fatigue, and O’ Rourke having
traveling rug for a pillow, sought another.
Mrs. Spry was heavy-eyed when she
awoke, and yawned behind her little
gloved hand as she stood upon the plat
form watching the assiduous O’ Rourke,
who bustled hither and thither in her
behalf in his own brightest and most
cheerful manner.
“ I suppose your friends expect yea at
— I forget the name of the place. Je-
nenne? Is it JanenneF’ He glanced dt
her quickly and with so evident a surprise
Chat she added: “ Mr. Maskelyne told
Be you were going there. » Is that the
there together a few days ago. I may
go^on, or 1 may not. I shall probably
have a day or two in Brussels in any
When the hotel was reached, O’ Rourke
secured rooms for his
compan
ion and ordered for her st her request
to cup of warm milk and s biscuit. This
modest refection was conveyed to her bed
chamber, and she retired, purring an ac
knowledgment of obligation.
I f Mrs. Spry had been charming the
night before, she was still more delight
ful next morning. O’Rourke made a guess
aa to her age, and set her down as being
between three and four and twenty, in
which he battered her. Bearing in mind
all the while bow time was flying, and
how it behooved him to make the most of
chances which were likely to be limited,
ha turned the conversation to the Indy’s
probable movements. Did she Intend to
v is it”
“ O h !” cried Mrs. Spry, clasping her
hands. “ How delightful to know such
people! Oh, how I do envy you that
privilege!"
“ You will be bound to meet him,”
O’ Rourke said, “ and sure to like him. I
believe that Miss Butler and Mrs. Farley
are great friends.”
“ I shall be afraid o f him, I ’m sore,”
cried the widow, hiding her face in her
bands, and surveying O’Rourke through
her fingers. “ I was afraid o f yon at
Hint.”
She blushed prodigiously at this
avowal, and dropping her hands before
hfer, she turned her head away. O ’Ronrke
caught her hand* and held them. H r a
moment
'
“ O f me?” he said, tenderly.
And here, since they were alone la the
carriage, and had still s good twesty
miles to go before they reached their first
stopping point, no man can say how vap
idly and how happily O'Rourke’s fate
might have been decided, if only tbs ad
venture had happened in England, where
the guards refrain from walking aboht
the outaide o f their trains during transit
But at this instant the door swung open
and the ticket collector entered, and hav
ing with »-perfect stony gravity punched
their tickets, swung himself out through
the door on the other side o f the car
riage and went on hia way with a broad
grin. O’ Rourke saw the grin, and for a
moment, though he was a fairly good-tem
pered man as a general thing, felt venge
ful. The obvious impossibility o f pur
suing the ticket collector along the foot-
“ Well, no,” eh* answered, with n be
coming little blush. “ There’s only one
thing brings me here. There’s an old
lady living here— a little hard up. I ’m
“ I should like,” said Mr. Frost— “ I
afraid, Mr. O’Rourke. She’s a relative should particularly like to know what
o f my poor dear late husband’s—a distant your individual caper really is.”
relative, but the only one he had, and he
“ Make your desire a little dearer,” ter
turned Mr. Zeno. “ I speak Engish tol
not very likely to be very good friends erably well, I think, but I have yet to
with me, but I want to make it up with learn American. T ry English."
t e r i f She'D let me." O'Rourke'* atten
The two were seated in Frost’s dingy
tive and sympathetic face waa worth a apartment. The tenant of the room was
volume o f commonplace answers to this better dressed than usual, his clothes
statement. “ And tW n," aaid the widow, were better brushed, and hia linen was
“ I ’ve got a friend to see, and then I ’ve stiffer and whiter thaa ordinary. A tall,
done with Belgium. I shall go and see shiny silk hat cocked laxily over one eye
Paris again, and I shall try to peAuade gave him a rakish air, and aa he leaned
u y frieqjl to go with me. I haven’t seen back in a broken down rocking chair, with
her for two years, but she’s the dearest his heels on the window sill, he contem
girl In the world.”
plated the trim and - well polished boots
' “ T h a t ” said O’Rourke, “ is a flattering which ornamented his feet with a look
description. Ia your friend in Brussels?" of obvious satisfaction. The evening sun
“ No. From what I can learn, ahe’s shone through the dirty, uncurtained win
*oue and buried herself alive in some dow, and gave bis sallow akin an unac
dreadful quiet place; miles and miles customed glow.
«w a y from everywhere.
I ’ve looked it
“ What do you want to get at, at all?”
up on the map, and I make out Namoor demanded Frost. “ What do you want
too be the nearest city. It's a little place to know? What do you want to do?”
-called Houfoy.”
" I want to know and do many things,”
“ I have been there,” returned O’Rourke, returned Zeno.
“ Come to your point,
with admirable naturalness. “There is my friend. Be more precise. What do
-only one English family residing there, you want to know? What do you want
k have the pleasure to know them.”
to do?”
■ “ Oh,” said the lady, rapidly and enthu
“ You don’t put your head into the
siastically, “ do you know Angela Butler?
lion’s mouth and hold it there for noth
Oh, npw, really! I aay, what a little
in’," said Frost, turning a shifty glance
place the world ia, to be sure! Wall,
upon him. “ You could know' every move
now, I do wonder that young George
ment that old madman makes, if that's
Itlaskelyne never told ms that you knew
your only game,' withont putting your
Angela Butler.”
,
own akin in danger for a second. There
“ I only know them very alightly,” aaid
ain’t a thing he does that I don’ t know,
O ’ Rourke. " I only met them a fortnight
or couldn’t know if I wanted to, and
ago. N o ; three weeks since.”
what I know you could know at a very
“ Oh,” purred the widow, making her
slight momentary expenditure.”
t e a t and most expressive eyes at her
“ W ell,” returned Zeno, “ very
well.
companion.
“ I adore
Angela Butler.
You know the man in the photograph.
Don’t you adore her, Mr. O’Rourke? Oh,
Yon know Athanos Zeno. Nobody else
I ’m sure you do.”
knows Athanos Zeno, my good Frost. I f
“ I think her a very charming girl.
Athanos Zeno is betrayed he la betrayed
Frank, clever, English— thoroughly Eng
by George Froet. Is It worth while to
lish.”
talk of this any longer? Do you think
“ Oh, no very English,” said Mrs. Spry.
that I am not content with carrying my
“ And you are going to Houfoy to see
life in my own hand, and that I put it
Miss Butler?“ asked O’Rourke. “ That
into yours? Do you think that I am
la delightful news indeed to me.
We
young enough and foolish enough tp trust
■hall be neighbors. I am going to Ja-
anybody without a check? Let me tell
nenne to see some old friends o f mine,
you why I employed yon. I saw that you
and Janenne ia the nearest village to
were clever, cunning and without Scruple,
Houfoy.”
and without courage. It is not a good
“That will be pleasant,” said Mrs. thing always to choose a man without
Bpry. When she had said this she low courage, but it ie a good thing in your
ered her head away suddenly, and a sec case, because when you know that your
ond or two later shot a most vanquishing life hangs upon your good faith you will
glance at O ’Rourke.
be faithful. Now, is it really worth while
She discharged her one little bit of to talk of this any longer?”
actual business, and she set out on a
“ I own up,” said Frost.
bright afternoon in early June, with the
" I shall not trust you a bit more if
constant O’ Rourke in attendance, for you own up, as you call it,” said Zeno,
Houfoy, having previously advised An tranquilly.
“ I shall not trust you a
gela of her coming by wire.
bit less. I Shall not trust you less for
"L e t me see, now,” said Mrs. Spry, this talk, because I have never trusted
holding her bead on one side and looking you. I shall not trust you any more,
op at O’ Rourke thoughtfully. "H ow long because I never trust anybody. I am
will It take this train to reach Houfoy?” obliged to be in danger. Now, really,
" I t doe# not go on to Houfoy,” return ■hall we talk of this thing any mors? Is
ed O’ Rourke. “ It reaches Janenne in it really worth while?"
four bourn and five minutes.”
“ You’re not such a fool,” Frost an
“ I think you know everything, Mr. swered, evidently 111 at ease beneath Mr.
O'Rourke,” aaid the lady, admiringly. Zeno’s smile— “ you’ re not such a fool aa
Then, clasping her hands with a soft fer to suppose that I ’m going to throw np
vor, “ W ill you do me a favor, Mr. a tolerable safety such as I ’ve got hold
O ’ Rourke?”
of. I ain’t the man to quarrel with my
“ T ry me,” Mid O’ Rourke, with his rations, nor yet to get my akin pierced
own admirable mixture of Jest and earn- while I can keep It whole. I was a fool
to threaten you, but I wanted to know
“ WU1 yon go to the telegraph burton your game and that waa alL I f I ain’t
and write a telegram? Ia French, or going to be let know It, I ’m placable.”
dreadful foreigners’ll bangle
It.
t e Mrm. Bpry, Brussels, to Mias Angela and have some dinner. And yon ehall
ir. the Chateau, Houfoy.
T o m y pay for the dinner, because yon have
ghat I shall be at— what’s the name o f been a fool. Eh, .my Froet?”
“ I ’m game for that,” Mid F roet “ Are
the station?—at— when does the train got
there?— and to ask her to meet me there. yon going to take your parcel with you?”
¡Because a be might forget.”
“ A h ! the parcel,” Mid Zeno.
“ The
“ May I look at your bo ok er he Mid. parcel is your affair. I had forgotten.
“ Certainly,” eh* answered, taking up This Is a little invention o f your own.
* loose handful and handing them over Yon will bring It under the attention of
to him. As she did ao hia eyM met hers, the committee this evening and It will
secure yon a little praise, I can assure
reluctance.
Mrs. Spry
blushed,
and you.”
opened one o f Ite paper-bound volumes.
“ What Is I t r Froet demanded.
“ Ah r cried O’Rourke, brightly, a mo-
“ H a l hat” cried Zeno, with a laugh,
p e n t later, “ you have bought ’Fireflies,’ “ you have divined Its nature. What a
cunning fellow It la, and what a cour
i answered, looking up with ageous fellow It 1st”
•ry o f the blush still Ilnger-
“ I My, look here,” said the other,
syes, “ I heard a great deal shrinking closer against tbs wall, “ you
t It la London, and I want havea’t got any of that stuff here, have
it's like."
you? I Ma t stand it, Zone. I won’t— ’’
upon Froat’a collar. “ You call dm by
that name! You ar* frightened, are you?
and you forget, do you, my poor Froet?
Merer be frightened again, will you?
Please!
Never forget again, will you?
Please1"
“ I hate the stuff," Frost declared. “ I
can’t bear to be about , it."
“ Do not mind the stuff, dear Frost,"
said Mr. Zeno, tightening his hold on
Frost’s collar. “ Mind me. If you pleas*,1
You will be very sorry If you aall me
by that name again.”
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“ I won’t forget again.” he said, stam
meringly. “ But I hate the stuff. I wiah
you wouldn’t bring It here."
I
“ Pooh !” returned Zeno, with a brutal
disregard o f his friend's sensitiveness
“ What barm Is there in thin?” He re-
Sanasse* Ciottola*.
I t Is tbs custom whenever on* goes
from northern regions to the tropics
to.don w h it* garments as s protection
against the heat o f the sun; and s
change from colored food s to w hit* Is
mad* In our climate, also, in the sum-
in brown paper. Setting this upon the
table, he proceeded to untie the knotted
string which surrounded it, grinning and
Tbs reason given fo r this reeort to
grimacing at his companion aa he worked
w hit* Is that “ It reflects tbs heat In
at the knots with his fingers. Front glued
stead o f absorbing I t ; ” and I f one
himself to the wall and stared at the
questions
Its virtue, answer Is alw ays
parcel with an involuntary batting o f the
made that the natives o f tropica! re
eyes. When at last the knots were con
gions wear w hite clothe#, and they
quered, the paper wrappages removed,
and the contents exposed, he gave a sigh
ought to know what Is bast
o f relief, and wiped his brow with the
I t Is trae that the natives often w ear
back of hia hand.
white, but they have dark skins by
— “ tVell,” be «told, with .to. ghastly at-
whidb they are protected from
the
tempt at a Jocular air and tone, “ that*
chemical rays, the rays that ara moat-
ain’t any harm in that, so far. aa I can
Injurious to man, and that break down
see.” Zeno held up before him a packet
hla health, after a longer o r shorter
o f half a dozen books, held together by
residence In equatorial regions. Th e
a double strap, and differing slightly ta
size. Fastened to the two atrapa was
w h it* man'* w hite clothes offer do
a loop o f sewn leather by which the par
resistance to these InJurloA light rays,
cel could be conveniently carried.
“ I How dear to my heart are the bucket
K-kets It speedily ^though they give comfort by throw-
■hop earnings.
don’t know,” skid Frost, “ what yon want
thev’va been ln* *>•<* the beat raya
When fond recollection presents them
to scare me for. I ’ ve told yon over and
7
I f white clothes are worn externally,
to view ;
over again I can’t bear the mere sight
Iness that did ’em the undergarments, so tropical hygieo-
The derk, the mechanic, for wealth vain
o f It.”
I lets say, should M black, red or orange,
ly yearning,
“ Come here,” mid Zeno, laying the
the get-rleb-qnlck since these colors offer a screen to tho
Ahd every one else I was able to do.
packet on the table and unfastening the
I chemical raya. A fte r dark. In the
buckles; “ I have something to show No longer they’ll corns With the bulb of
tflelr wages,
you.”
Frost approached with a slow
inem that did ’em tropica aa w ell aa during the hot Bum
swagger of unconcern. Zeno, having laid
And hand them to ms, when for mar
mer montha In this country, black
down the straps on either side, opened
gins I call;
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.
clotosa a re the moat sensible, since
the topmost volume. “ A dictionary,” ’! » No longer they’ll find In tbs newspaper
I scarce can
they promote the radiation o f heat
mid, “ o f French and English.” H e flut
pages
a
bear
or
a
bull
;
fptxn ***• body‘
t
tered over the first two or three score
The news that a bucket shop’s goo* to
and I ne’er can
Th e head covering In summer should
leaves.
the w all;
--------- — — — — be light in ro to r as w eit as In w e ig h t
— “ W eii," aald Froet, “ where’s year In The well -furnished bucket shop, swell
ten my wonderful — yellow or khaki color la bettor than
vention T”
looking bucket shop,
“ Here,” replied Zeno, and, turning ever
Whits— but should have a dark lining,
The bucket shop ready U go to the
another score o f leaves, revealed the top
their money and Th e practice o f going bareheaded, ee-
o f a tin box, displaying at the same t h e -
,
pectally ln the case of Ugbt-balred or
>en my customer. ^
pem>n^ „
wlth
the fact that the interior part s f the
H o w oft have they stood by the ticker
loaves was cut dean sway, and that the
and waited
tssed a bill that » “ >«■> ^
no0on that
apparent bundle o f books was but a case.
T o learn what their profits were going
headed men bare that exposure of the
H e lifted the dictionary, and some two
to be!
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hop’s gone to tbs bead to the sun’s rays w ill promote the
inches o f tho tin box stood clear. Than .
growth o f the hair Is pernicious; the
he lifted the second book, which was How oft to their sorrow they've found
■hop, cash-getting man who has tried It one summer w ill
■mailer fbàn the first, and held It up, a
T o leave all their profits forever with
mere oblong frame, Then he drear out
not repeat: It the next— I f be Is alive,
the tin case itself, and balanced it in his
that has gone to
j n texture, summer clothing should
coin! How I seised It with hands
hand before Frost, who retired so rapidly
bo light and porous F o r men the outer
that
were
glowing,
that be fell over a chair backward. “ Get
garments Should be o f wool, the under-
It ia empty.”
Frost
up,” said Zeno,
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clothing
o f linen or cotton and wool.
arose, rubbing the back of hia head, which
S T S T H R IV E .
Th is Should be woven In a mesh which,
had come smartly in contact with the
by the a ir It contains, protects against
wall.
Ada»
Tasta chill and which absorbs perspiration;
what you
“ I don’t know,
ix M tio n ,
| such m aterial does not get the “ ciam-
want to scare me for.”
i thrown on the my” feeling o f a closely woven cloth
“ Why,” returned Zeno, showing tho
In the last few when damp.
gaps in hia teeth again, “ it is right that
you should know that you are a coward.”
tlona o f Pavlov,
A night garment o f loosely woven
“ There are some men,” said Frost, ris la ted than any-oth er country lu the
t. and others, tola flannel o f darti color w ill be found
ing slowly, “ that can’t stand snakes. I world. I t Is the kingdom o f Belgium,
have changed more comfortable than one o f cotton
ain’t sweet on snakes myself, but I ’d where there are a little more than 880
mra o f this proc- o r linen, and w ill also afford greater
sooner go to bed with s hogshead o f ’em Inhabitants fo r every square m ile o f
o explain many protection against
chill.
Bummer
than be in the saipe room with dynamite. territory. Th e
Inhabitants are o f
, especially why “ colds” often follow chilling o f too
And outside that, I don’t know that I ’m
French and German origin o f about
faddist thrives body toward morning when It la en-
such a champion coward as you take me
let, although It cased In a damp din gin g linen night-
for. i t ’s a natural repugnance*
repugnance that’s equal proportions, are quite numerous
what it la—« natural repugnance.« I ’ve enough to engage In great manufactur
ora that o f hla dress. One who finds himself in such
read of men that have that aame precise ing Industries, but wjio are, neverthe
equally on his a state in the early morning Should
kind o f feelin* in respect to cate, and less, pastoral In their pursuits and de
are told o f dys- quickly take a warm bath, followed by
roees, and all manner o f things that you pend on the soil fo r a livelihood. Many
rs on carefully a cold sponge or shower, and a vigor-
and me don’t mind at all.”
canals and a .network o f railroads
‘
blandest -and oua rubbing with a coarse toweL—
“ W ell," said Zeno, smiling still, “ this through the country enable the ¡farmers
■ort, and suf- Youth’s Companion.
Is your invention, my brave Frost. I to transport their products to the mar
make you a present of the ides. You ob
kets, and the clim ate In general la de
A VsgM Pmrrlstlom.
serve” (he restored the tin box to its
place again, and strapped the innocent
One o f the virtues o f the modem
o f It. To their delight aa much as to physician Is definiteness o f direction.
looking volumes together as be spoke)
their surprise, there
T o prescribe a dose “ once In so often”
susplcion about this.
I f any o f your
la to leave a wide margin o f chance,
friends, who does not share your natural
especially I f the drug be a potent one.
repugnance, should want to cross the
Itot It be hoped that the good man
whose prescription la quoted below was
not dealing In strychnin nor prussic
acid. Th e letter la taken from “ High
ways and Byw ays In Sussex,” by E. V.
Pavlov found In experimenting on Lucas, and waa written by the doctor
dogs that an abundance o f
gaatric ln an English village a century ago.
Juice was secreted when they had food
Mr. Andrews. I have sent yon some
that they liked, even though tola food things which you may take In the man
N o C a s s * f a r A la r m ,
waa mechanically prevented from en ner following, v i z : o f that In toe bottle
Th e honeymoon had
tering the stomach;
whereas, when marked with a + you may take o f the
bumps.
they were fed on things they did not quantity o f a spoonful! or so, now and
“ You know, John, aaid the young
care for, but oould eat only when h alf then, and at night take some o f those
w ife, “ that I n eed’ to be your type
starved, toe secretions o f gaatric Juice pills, drinking a little warm beer after
w riter r
waa very scanty. This he called the It, and In the morplng take 2 spoonfulia
“ Um— yea,” grunted John.
“ appetite Juice,” the process in toe o f that ln the other bottle, fasting an
“ W ell,” she continued, “ I wish you
stomach being analogous to the fam il hour after it, and then you may eat
would discharge the girl you hare now
iar phenomenon o f "w atering In the something, you may take also o f the
and hire a man ln her place.”
ligh tfu lly temperate. Cattle Is one o f mouth,” or increased salivary secre first and every night a pill and In the
I hope you
“ Huh 1” rejoined hubby,
the chief products, and the corn and tion caused by the sight or smell o f m orning
don’t think I would make a fool o f
I hope tola w ill do you wood which
fru it crops come n e x t Many engage In savory food or even by the thought o f
myaelf tw ice In the same way.” — Chi
He found also that the composi la the desire o f him who Is your loving
fishing, and In recent years the coal I t
cago N e w s
•
W illiam Benbrlgg.
and Iron ore mining baa grown to great tion o f the digestive fiqlds varied with friend,
proportions. Lumbering ia also carried the kind o f food, ea cb jlrtlcle sw allow
N o t h in * N ow ,
ed calling forth, through some mysteri
on to a considerable ex ten t
I t waa bargain day.
P ro o f Is below that ladles criticized
But cattle raising and frn lt farm ing ous signals transmitted to the stomach
A n e x c ite d , man rushed Into toe appear to be the national occupations. from toe tongue and palate aa soon aa each other’s -clotltei In the seventeenth
crowded dry goods emporium.
Th e Inhabitant* s*em naturally adapt they bad tasted the morsel placed ln as well aa ln toe twentieth century—
“ Say, where w ill I find m y w ife?” ed to such tasks, and they are surely the month, Just the sort o f fluid best and In “ fonetlk” spelling.
he queried o f the bead floorwalking more picturesquely Interesting to the adapted to Its digestion. The enthusi
In 1686, M ay or June, Bridget Noel
gentleman.’
traveler when thus engaged.
D airy astic appreciation by the dietetic w rote to her sister, toe Countese o f
“ Really, I don’t know, atr,” replied products cut do anal] figure In a coun crank o f the unsavory food which h* Ru tland:
toe party o f the floorwalking p a rt try where cattle raising Is an import Is persuaded w ill assure him strength
“ My Lady Oansbourer meet us at
ant industry, and the milk peddlers o f and long life gives him a taste fo r It, Burley, but Ip sutcb a dres as I never
Belgium are without a doubt the moat and so the motherly stomach provides eaw without dlsput H er jengan man-
Interesting characters the traveler w ill an abundance % f gaatric Juice o f to * to la the worst o f Its kind, It Is pur-
meet In any country in Europe. A ll proper composition and thereby saves pel, ft a great dele o f green, A a letel
through Belgium you w ill meet the him from the otherwise Inevitable con gould, ft great flours, ther la some red
Prepheer Pellllet.
m ilk peddler, whether on toe
city sequences o f hie folly.
w ith the green, and no* lining, which
Patient— I have come to tell you, streets, the villages and toWha or toe
Inks a bomenable.”
aix • ( on «, at«,
doctor, that that young stock broker, country highways. And aa a general
whom my daughter met at the sea tour thing they qye the robust red cheeked
"Look at poor Mrs. Smith fo r k in g
n t t l a * the W o re to the Aet.
months ago, has now proposed to her girls from the farms, With their milk that heavy lawn mower.
Isn’t It a
John— Maria, what on alrth do y *
and they a r* engaged.”
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cans and Jars loaded on carts In which ■bam*?"
think? Th at pesky B1 Smith w e’ve been
Doctor— Now didn’t I tell you that dogs are the m otive power. Th e pic
“ Yea, perhaps It la; but listen to q us reelin' w ith see he’s goln’ to »»fc*
you would benefit later by your change? ture w ith this article shows a milkmaid poor Mr. Smith potting the baby to the matter Inter the courts.
— Meggendorfer Blatter.
sleep.”
w ith her cert and dog.
Maria— Oh, law 1— Baltimore Amerl-
M ilk and butter are ridiculously low
C*at*a«M*at.
priced in Belgium, and to * peddler has
“ D ey say contentment la better dan
Somehow when a girl appears on
Ned— Whenever Mr. Husale begins a *o t to make a lo t o f sales before a Dol
thing practically there’s no idle dream la r la earned. However, the purchas riches," aaid Uncle E ben ; ‘“ but I moa’ the front porch and spreads ont a
own np dat I ’d kind o’ like to try both hammock. It suggests a spider, and
ing about It, I M l you.
ing pow er o f a dollar la a lot greater In
Nell— Oh, I don’t know. May Yerner Belgium than It la In tola country, ao an* decide fob myself.” — Washington •very one wonders I f a fly w ill com*
along.
told me be practically began a proposal things about even np. N ext In Import Star.
to her once. I ’ll bet there waa a good ance to stock and fru it raising Is agri
T o a man w ith a little senaa, prob
M arriage la sometime* a failure be
deal o f Idle dreaming about th a t— P h il culture, and, although Belgium la not ably the greatest annoyance in the a u s * a man la unable to think o f the
adelphia P ra m
world la a fool.
large, It axcela moat o f Europak
right excuse at to * right tim e