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E NOCH WENTWORTi
By iSABEL GORDON CURTIS,
Author of "The Woman from Wolvertons"
CHAPTER XVIIL—(Confd).
"Now," he demanded sharply, "be
good enough to tell me what this
means,"
"Aren't you going to ask me to sit
down?" The woman spoke with an
enticing smile,
"No. I have no intention of asking
you to stay so long."
Zilla Paget laughed and sank Ian-
guidly into a chair beside the fire-
place.
"I would suggest that you sit down,"
she said suavely.
Enoch shook his head.
"You may get tired before I am
through talking. It will take some
time to discuss this affair,"
"What affair?" Wentworth turned
on her with quiet scorn, "Don't be
foolish enough to try blackmail. Any-
thing like," he paused for a moment
as if trying to find a suitable word,
"like sentiment, for instance—or call
it what you wish—died a natural
death one afternoon when I tried to
explain things to you. The minute a
woman lets herself go and shows the
devil in her makeup at white heat
sentiment can die—die a very sud-
den death, Besides, I have nothing
on my conscience. I treated you as
generously as any man would have
done under the circumstances."
Miss Paget threw back her head
and laughed. "Sit down," she advis-
ed. "This is a different affair en-
tirely. Do not flatter yourself; there
is not a ghost of sentiment in this."
Enoch walked to the mantel, Leaned
his elbow upon it, and stared down
at her, "I'll give you exactly ten min-
utes to explain what you want. If it is
about your child, I am quite as anxious
to get him out of my house as you
are."
"My child ! I will relieve your mind
on that point immediately. It is not
my child I want. If your sister wants
to play fostel'-mother, she is quite
welcome to him. When I think of it,"
she began slowly to draw off her
gloves, "Miss Wentworth has really
done me a great favor."
"Oblige me then," Enoch's voice was
full of cold indifference, "by getting
down to business as quickly as pos-
sible. You must be gone before my
sister comes in,"
"Indeed." The actress looked up
into his face with an insolent smile.
"Why should we hurry? I want to ask
you a few questions, I understand
you axe writing a new play." She
turned to glance at the litter of manu-
script on his deck. "Is there a part
in it for me?"
"I have not begun to place parts
yet."
"Ah!" She watched him with calm
scrutiny. "How is it coming along?
Will it be as big a go as "The House'
has been?"
"Is it any of your business?''
"Probably not; still, I am interest-
ed. I have been wondering," she
spoke slowly, as if thinking aloud, "if
it can possibly come up to the expecta-
tions of the public. A second play is
often such a—rotber."
"What in thunder are you driving
at?" asked Enoch fiercely.
She sprang tp her feet and faced
him. There was a malevolent sneer
in her face.
"My opinion is that anything you
could do would be a rotten"
"Why?"
Zilla Paget drew one hand from her
muff and pulled out a few sheets of
crumpled paper. She laid them on
the table, smoothing them carefully
with the blank side up. Suddenly she
turned them over and placed both her
hands firmly on the paper.
Enoch took a few steps forward and
peered down through his glasses. His
gait grew unsteady and his fingers!
gripped at the edge of the table. A
purplish flush swept over his cheeks,;
then he became ghastly pale, His very
lips grew white.
There were gray
hollows about his eyes like the shad
ows which creep into a face after
deabh. His mouth moved, but he did
not utter a word, because his tongue
touched dry lips.
"I knew you would understand,"
I
murmured the woman.
Wentworth's hands sprang at her'
wrists like the grip of a wild beast.
snatching at its prey, 1
"Don't," entreated the actress. "You
hurb terribly. You do not know how ,
strong you are. Besides—you aro
foolish, horribly foolish. If you should!
tear this, it is nothing but Exhibit A.,' I
There are hundreds of sheets where !°
e} came from. And let me tell you—
Wentworth unclasped her wrists, i
they are where yon won't find them," { b
1
klut his eyes were blazing with mute
derous fury. He turned with a quick
gesbure to the wall behind him,
Against a tug of Oriental matting
hung a collection of savage weapons,
The woman watched him with cool un
concern. He seemed to be searching 1
rapidly with his eyes for something,
He laid his hand upon a. long thin dag-
ger. Here and there its blade had
rusted to blankness, but its edge was
deadly keen. He jabbed the point of
it into his blotting pad. It curled
over lithely, as a Ferrara does. Then!
he glanced at the woman beside the
table, His eyes were glittering with 1
sive smile.
"My price is ridiculously small,
much Iess than it is worth. I am
merely coming here—to live."
"You are coming here --to live?
Here—in the house—with my sister?"
"Here—in the house—with your sis-
ter," she repeated mockingly. "Exact-
ly. I have taken a fancy bo this part
of the ety. It is rather attractive
for New York. I think I shall enjoy
the society of your sister, You will
not find me a troublesome guest. I
can fit in happily to your home circle.
Part of my luggage is there in the
hall, you know. The rest is down-
stairs."
A wave of scarlet swept over
Enoch's face.
"To think of Merry squaring up
through—you. It's the most infernal
scheme ever concocted."
"That's a belly bad guess of yours.
Merry does not come into this at all."
"Where did you get these'?" Enoch
spoke fiercely and pointed to the sheets
of paper that lay under her hand.
"Ib's rather an unusual story. Sit
down and I'll tell it to you. If you
are searching for a plot for that new
play of yours, you might find this
worth while."
Wentworth threw himself into •the
chair in front of his desk and wiped
beads of perspiration from his fore-
head.
"Did you ever hear of George
Volk?" asked Miss Paget.
Enoch's forehead corrugated into a
puzzled frown,
"I met him in London seven years
ago," she continued, "and I was such
a belly fool I married him. In those
days he was a heroic looking figure. If
you saw him as he is to -day you might
say I had showed poor taste."
Wentworth sat staring at her with
sullen curiosity,
"I have found out that he is in New
York and thab ten years ago he had
been married here. Also that his wife
and child are alive. Interesting sit-
uation, isn't it? Bigamy -releoses a
woman, though I had not felt terribly
fettered. I have George Volk to thank
for bringing that brat across. It was
one of his masterly little schemes of
revenge. Then, in a curious way, I
learned that Volk's wife is the woman
you call Alice Bourne. He Iaid a
scheme to get money out of her yes-
terday. I got a detective and planned
to face him when he reached his
wife."
"What the devil has Volk and your
matrimonial affairs to do with that?"
Wentworth pointed bo the sheets of
paper beside her on the table.
"Don't be in such a blooming hurry,
I tell you the situation is dramatic. I
went to the house where Alice Volk
lives in Harlem—oh, I was disguised,
I tell you; you would never have
known me, The detective got in first
and opened the area door. I slipped
in and waited. He was to give me a
signal when Volk arrived. A servant
came clumping down the cellar stairs
after coal. I hid in a closet where
they store trash and—waste paper."
Enoch's eye narrowed and a yellow
pallor crept over his face. "Curse
t 1" He spoke in a hoarse whisper.
"Yes, curse it!" repeated Zilla Paget
with an amused laughed. "My wordl
was a blooming queer accident! I
i
dosed the door, the latch caught and
couldn't get out. There I was lock -
d in the beastly hole. 9 struck a
match. It was lucky I had a match -
ox along. Then I found an electric
ight. The first thing my eyes lit on
among that waste was a sheet of pa-
},er. I picked ib up. I bad seen the
writing before,"
"Where was it?" .ternmer'ed Went-
worth,
"Whose was It? Don't put up that
,loft on me," cried the actress scorn-
fuily. "It was Merry's, of course,
You recognized it in a second. It
was the last speech I made in the gee.
Aid act. -as it used to be -.-before• you,
the author, changed it."
"Well," cried Enoch fiercely. 'rhe
woman paused and turned to him with
an amused smile,
"1 had forgotten about George Volk,
the bloodthirsty passions of the prime
tive man.
Zilla Paget lifted a lorgnette which
hung at her wrist by a jeweled chain.
She clicked ib open, raised it to her
eyes—and laughed.
"I wonder," she murmured, "if you
realize how ridiculous you look. You
are too white -livered to do such a
thing as that. Besides," she glanced
about the sunlit room, "where could
you hide the body?"
Enoch tossed the blade upon his
desk and began to walk up and down
the floor. He rolled his handkerchief
into a hard ball and dabbed with it
continually at his moist forehead. The
woman sat perfectly still, she turned
to fold the sheets of paper, then she
laid one hand upon them and lay back
gracefully in her chair.
Wentworth turned on her with a
sudden question. "I'Iow much do you
want for—Exhibit A and the rest of
the evidence?"
She shrugged her shoulders. "I have
no intention of selling it."
"Then what's your price?" Enoch's
question snapped Iike a pistol shot.
She looked up at him with a deri-
He never showed sip, He does not
count anyway, I. found the whole play
in that closet,"
"Then what did 'you do?" Enoch's
face was full of hatred and deflanee
His
maeylesat flabaymer with the tumult of an
,
"There was only one thing to do."
Zilla Paget lay back 921 the chair and
smoothed the chinchilla of her =Huff
earessingly. "Of course I brought it
away with me, every scrap of it, You
would not have let such a valuable
asset into the hands of a dustman,
would you? There are only two pages
missing. Do you care to see it?"
"Damn you, no! I have no wish to
see it," snarled Wentworth.
"Any fool can tell at a glance it
a first draft. Merry must have wri
ten like mad. There is hardly
change in it, Except for my own rol
every line stands almost as it waswri
ten."
Enoch suddenly leaned forward 1
his chair, "You think you've got th
strangle hold on me?"
Miss Pageb laughed triumphantl
"The strangle hold! You America
have such jolly strong words; That
great—the strange hold."
She rose and folded the pages o
manuscript, put them in her bag, the
she drew off her coat and hung it o
the chair behind her. She lifted
gold case from the pocket, picked o
a cigarette, and scratching a mabch li
it, blowing a delicate ring of smok
across the room. It flibted into Went
worth's face.
"I always know," she bent over t
drop a fleck of ashes on a tray be
side her, "or rather I have guessed for
a long time, that you did not writ
"The House of Esberbrook, "
"What gave you that impression?"
"For one thing, everybody tells how
you and Merry were friends once—
Castor and Pollux sort of guys, don'
you know. You hate each other now
An owl could see that with its eyes
shut,"
"If you ever left the stage you could
make big money in the detective busi-
ness," Enoch laughed harshly.
"Perhaps," she acceded. "Then I
have rehearsed boo many plays not to
know the author when I bump into
him. I knew months ago that Merry
wrote 'The House', but I could not
prove it. You haven't got it in you
to do that sort of work."
"Thank you." Enoch laughed un-
steadily.
(To be continued).
Weeding -Time in the Dairy,
Feed being higher in price, and the
cows demanding more of it, as wellas
more comfortable quarters, greater
care and attention, the winter season
should be the one in which the farm-
er detects and weeds out the undesir-
able members of the dairy herd. .
The old cow that has rendered good
is service but now consumes more feed
t_ than she pays for, should be promptly
a weeded out by turning her over to the
e markets, To say nobhing of her being
6 unprofitable the old and infirm are
liable to sudden death any clay—a
total loss!
e With an accurate milk -test so easily
obtained, many farmers still are milk-
y, ing cows that give one-third more
my milk than that produced by others,
s; when bhe cream test is so low on these
i larger quantities that the animals
f barely pay for their care and feed the
n Year round, Let the Babcock test as -
n list you in this weeding out.
a I The cow that eats twice as much as
ut the average cow, must, in order bo
t prove a profit maker, produce twice
o as much dairy products, yet many'
_ farmers unknowingly retain just such
animals in the herd from year to year,!
O simply because they do not take the
time to look the matter up. Besides,!
such a gormand is almost sure to
o bring on digestive derangements'
which will render her useless as a
I milker, long before her allotted time,
and thus add still another loss to her
credit.
t The severity of wintr weather
seems to have a more deteriorating
effect on some cows than others. They
appear unable to withstand the rigors
of winter, and fall off in both flesh and
milk production to such an extent as
soon as the severe weather sets in,
that they just about pay for their
feed and keep. Don't allow the'
thoughts of a profuse flow of milk for
a, few weeks during the summer to in -1
finance you in retaining such unpro-
fitable members in the dairy herd.
Weed them out, at once)
Then, there are other types of dairy, 1
cows that we cannot afford to keep
around us, The cow that has short t
teats, or the one that is so difficult to i
milk, had just as well be in the mar-
ket -place, when you can secure others
equally as profitable, with good-sized,I
easily milked teats. And these easy
milkers are no more costly than the
THE VICTORIA CROSS AWARD.
The Coveted Honor Is Never Con-
ferred Conspicuously.
It is a pathetic circumstance that
two of the three Victoria Crosses be-
stowed in the award to men of the
fleet, as an outcome of the Jutland
battle, pass to the families of men
who did not live to receive the decor-
ation in person. What gives the Vic-
toria Cross its peculiar distinction
among military honors is that nothing
short of an absolute disregard of the
risk of life establishes a title to it. It
is never conferred promiscuously, and
it runs no risk of being exhibited for
sale with cheap jewelry in a shop win-
dow. The only price is sacrifice, and
with most of the men who have won
the coveted distinction it is scarcely
possible that in the hour of glorious
performance they gave a single
thought to the reward. Nelson's hero-
ism is hardly the less sublime if he
exclaimed "Westminster Abbey or a
victory!" on the eve of a battle. But
there is a type of man with whom the
thought of glory and the instant im-
pulse to obey the voice of Duty are
strangers to each other. The vast
majority of the roster of heroes who
have worn the emblem of Crimean
cannan-metal, with its royal crest,
crowned lion, and the words "For
Valour!" have incontestably belonged
to the order of "the noble living and
the noble dead."
To Help Restore Louvain.
A. committee of leading Russian
scholars and professors has been es-
tablished to assist the French com-
mission to restore the world-renown-
ed library of Louvain, in Belgium,
which was burned by the Germans in
the early days of the war. The Grand
Duke Nicolas Miohajlovich is chair-
man of the committee.
Heartless Dad.
"You shall not marry the cub, and
that settles it."
"But he loves me father. Vows he
would die for me."
"I have no objection to that, Tell
him to insure his life in your favor
and go ahead."
`onside. ring the prices and merits of
the different materials there passed
over our section of country a heavy
thunderstorm, Some friends and our-
selves had been away to a picnic and
we wore just retprning when the
storm came up. The lightning was
very sharp and close by, We thought,
however, that we could reach the ehel-
ter of a ohureh shed before the storm
!reached rte height, We did not reach
this shelter before an usually close
flash of lightning nearly blinded us
and almost instantaneously with it a
barn about 40 rods away seemed to
burst out in flames. The barn was.
f411 of hay and was soon burned to
the ground.
This occurrence set us thinking and
we decided to protect our new barn
as far as possible from lightning. At
first we thought of putting on light-
ning rods; then we thought of the
danger from fire from other causes,
as sparks from the threshing engine,
or accidental firing of the straw stack.
The outcome was that we priced the
galvanized iron siding and shingles
manufactured by bhe different firms
and found them to be so little higher
in price than the wood that we bought
enough for the barn.
We now have a building, the whole
exterior of which is made of galvaniz-
ed steel. Conducting wires run into
the ground from the roof, making it
lighbning proof and we have practi-
cally nothing to fear from fire coming
from an outside source. It cost us a
little more, but we believe we get bet-
ter value for the money spent in that
it will last longer, our insurance is
less and we have greater peace of
mind.—Hiram Wheeler in Farm and
Dairy.
Nudges in the Right Direction.
Have an understanding with the
company that insures your buildings
before you get a gasoline engine. It
may save a lot of trouble.
If you have not basins for your cows
to drink out of in the barn, you can get
a small heater for the watering
trough h
g outside, This will take the
chill off so that the cattle will come
back feeling comfortable and good in-
side,
Have seen cows stand for a long
time at the watering trough in cold
weather, as if dreading to,take in the
ce-cold drink set before them. Have
seen those cows, too, go away from
he trough all humped up and shiver -
ng with the cold. It takes a lot of
animal vitality to warm up a cow
after she has been chilled that way.
Clean out your stables three or four
times a day. Begin the first thing"
in the morning. Do the work before
ones you fool away so much time and
strength with at milking -time. The Y
kicker, and the breathy cow also 1
come under this came class, for, while a
they may give a goodly quantity of
milk, the various points of undesir- a
ability are none the less present --loss d
of time during the milking-hours;clan.,ger; damage to fences, clops, and the
animals themselves. 1 n
ne must himself be a good neighbor.
Your wife measures your love efor
er by the little things you do. She'
an't help it. No use balking love
tire herd, since they are at least a'a
part of the foundation on which we: °
shall build. No sane man can ex -1
pect that bhe offspring of the above '1
mentioned cows will show sufficient
improvements to warrant one in keep -1 p
ing them as milkers. Indeed, thele'
is a far greater possibility that there
will be more of a retrograding in the a
strain, and that, within a few years'
time, the herd will not only fail to
prove a source of profit, but actually'
will return less dairy products Lo the' w
farmer than the cost of their feed and
ib
the amount of bime and labor expend-' -
ed in caring for them, while, with con-
servative weeding out of the undesir-
able members, and a judicious selecet
-
tion of the choicest offspring as
breeding stock; the standard of the
herd will be materially advanced -not
only above the "average", but above
those which rank as first class.
miiking. Then again about the time
ou let your cows out to drink. Fol -
ow this up stiII later before milking
t night. Care in this particular may
mean health and safety to your herd
nd to those who use your farm pro-
uct. Worth while, isn't it?
Moving away to some other part of
the country never gave a man good
eighbors. To have good neighbors,'
But bhe gr"elest of all reasons for °
weeding out the undesirable members!
of the dairy herd, is the influence these h
would exert on the future of the en -.e
nd then letting her dig the wood out
f the snowbank, 1
Kindlings in the oven will burn all ,
ight, and often they burn the house
up with them before morning, Don't
ut them there.
Hogs are not fools. They know
hen they are warm, dry and comfort-
ble. They will put on fat faster if
ou see to it that they have all these i
things on their side.
If you have a farm so poor that it
ill not raise white beans, make it so
will. You can do it. The soil is 1
of to blame, neither are the beans.'
t is your part to build the oldfarm up
nd make it blossom like the rose.
Two really good sheep will soon
ock a whole farm. A thousand poor
nes never will do it as it ought to be
done.
If you want good lambs in the
spring, keep the ewes well in the win -1
ter.
Why We Built a Steel Barn.
Our barn had become so delapidat-
ed that it was necessary to fix it or
it would soon fall down and the prices
of building material were so high we
did not know what kind to buy.
Wooden siding sheathing and shingles
had been steadily going up in price
year after year, until they had reach-
ed the point that we almost feared we
could not afford to buy them. The
old barn had to be fixed, however, and
we decided to make a complete job of
it when we did do it, so got quotations
ort new siding and shingles for the
whole building.
One evening about the time eve were
eo?rill V; "Stint no. hill ('an't ger see the blighter don't tmderetand
lingitsb? and it's, blinlcln' shame to waste alt that goad bad language
er, env'. London itysten'er,
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The best sheep in the world may be
spoiled by a poor fence.
Holes in the fence around the sheep
lot mean a tired man, for the sheep
will find them as sure as you are born.
Some roosters have a wicked way
of tackling every rival that may lift
up his head in the yard. Put a stop
to ib by taking the fighter out and
giving the rest peace,
Spraying the houses is not all there
is to keeping them clean, Scrape up
the droppings before you do the spray-
ing. That counts.
The boy that tickles the colt needs
tickling with a good swibch off the
peach tree. He would get it too, if he
were my boy.
Any maples on your farm? Make
a lick of syrup to go along with the
pancakes. Licking good!
Solomon` Decision.
Two brothers inherited a farm and
quarrelled violently as to its division.
Now there lived in their village a cer-
tain shrewd and wise old man, noted
for the soundness of his advice. Him
bhe brothers determined to appoint
arbitrator. Whatever he said they
would abide by. They Iaid the mat-
ter before him. Fora long while he
thought, then delivered judgment,
"You," said he, pointing to the elder,
"shall divide the farm as you think
fair. And you," he continued, point-
ing to bhe younger "shall have the first
choice."
A Wish.
I wish I was a landlord gay,
My life would be content,
For no one knows an easier way
To go, and raise the rent.
Cleared Out.
"Dubbleigh claims to have an open
mind."
"Ah, that explains his lack of ideas;
they have all escaped."
Celery is a good cure for rheumat-
ism and neuralgia,
The River Orinoco, in South Amer-
ica, is over three miles broad for
nearly half its course, while during
floods the width, even at places far
from the seais often a h
,
undred miles,
5 roc sTAetaaomtkeeatntt
weatereoats
THE man who puts
clothing to the hard-
est test usually selects
Penmans when it comes
to sweaters. He knows,
of course, from experi-
ence that they wear like
so much' iron, that they
fit right and look right.
After all there is nothing
like accepting what an
overwhelming majority
take as a standard. Say
Penmans,
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ACROSS THE BORDER
WHAT IS GOING ON OYER IN
THE STATES.
Latest 7•Iappenings in Big :Itapublio
Condensed for Ilusy
Readers,
Infantile paralysis is laid to vaccine
'virus by the Anti -Vaccination League
of America.
A St.. Louie clergyman was mar-
ried over the telephone to a woman
many miles away.
1 Bids to provide food for the navy
indicate an increase of between twen-
ty and forty per cent. in the Gest of
staple articles.
In a statement made public, Henry
Ford announced that, although "born
a Republican," he would cast his vote
for President Wilson.
I
Francisco Villa is in control of the
1 State of Chihuahua and has become
is "dangerous factor" once more
1 American army officers report,
r The American and Mexican Joint
Commission reports, that substantial
progress is being madetoward an
agreement on the Mexican situation,
Mayor William Hale Thompson, of
Chicago, has been fined $600 by fed-
eral authorities for violations of the
motor boat laws. The fine has not
yet been paid.
The uncle of the author of "I
Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier"
is the father of his thirteenth son,
in Brooklyn, and says he would be
willing for all to wear khaki.
New school buildings and annexes
costing $1,000,000, which will ac-
commodate about 6,000 more pupils,
have been completed in Philadelphia
since the close of the last school
term.
The young woman mortally wound-
ed when Mrs. Harry Balzer killed
Joseph C. Graveur, in Philadelphia,.
proves toMrs. be M s. Josep h C. Le Duc,
of Chicago, wife of a well-known golf
player.
Investigations of a new blackmail.
plot in which, it is alleged, a wealthy
Iowa man was fleeced out of $10,000
by the "million dollar blackmail syn-
dicate" was started by Chicago Fed-
eral officials.
The old Dent home in St. Louis,
Mo., in which U. S. Grant, then a
captain in the regular army, was
married to Miss Julia Dent, was' sold
at auction recently to John 11. Gun -
lath for $4,325.
Merger of the Pacific Coast Steam-
ship Company, owned in New York,
and the Pacific -Alaska Navigation
Company into a new steamship com-
pany, to be known as the Pacific
Steamship Company, was announced
at Seattle, Wash.
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CLIMATE AND ARCHITECTURE,
The Roof Is the Most Important Part
in House -building.
Architecture has been affected by
many influences, such as race, cli-
mate, accessibility of materials, re-
ligion and social conditions, An in-
teresting article on the subject ap-
pears in a recent issue of the Builder,
in which it is shown that climate is
the principal influence in .determining
the type of roof and of windows. The
roof is the more important, for the
history of architecture is very largely
the history of roof -building. A cli-
mate such as that of Egypt, which Is
very hot and has only a alight rain-
fall, demands a flat roof, which is the
simplest way to protect a building
from heat. As the exclusion of moist-
ure is of secondary importance, a
eloping roof is unnecessary. To ob-
tain Light only small openings are
used, since it is natural in a hot and
very sunny climate to prefer a dim
light as a relief from the glare out-
side. The flat roof also affords an
agreeable place to sleep during hot
weather. Greece and Italy have bril-
liant sunshine, but less heat and more
rain than Egypt. The consequence is
that a roof sloping enough to carry
off'tlie rain water is a necessity. The
slope adopted for the roof settled the
proportion of the pediments. The na-
tural method of excluding rain wa-
ter from a building with a pitched
roof is to let the roof plane project
beyond the external face of the wall,
and thereby to cover the joint be-
tween roof and wall. As a result we
have the cornice, which may be said
to have sprung from an absolute con-
structive necessity. In northern
countries, where there is more rain
alid occasional snow, steeper (roofs
than those used in Greek and Raman
buildings are required; windows are
larger, and details, to be in keeping,.
must be bolder.
He Was Experienced.
Mrs. Aytoun wanbed • some new
shoes, so she went into a shop, when
an obliging assistant brought out a
selection for her to try on. "That's
strange, madam," said he, after many
vain attempts to fit her. 'One of
your feet Is larger than bits other,"
Bristling with rage, the lady left that
shop and sought another. here,
again, the assistant failed to find a
pair which would do, "How curious,
madam!" he said. "One of your feat
is smaller than the other." And,
with a beaming smile, Mrs. Ayboun
bought two pair,
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they are too full'te flul.
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