"Then I'll lay for you out here nnd
punch your old head: Do you hear
me'>"
The major did not hear, lie was per?
fecting the organization of the Yeal
Cutlet Tablet company and wondering
whether the Canadian general agency
should be placed In Toronto or Quebec.
M. Quad.
THE LIMIT PASSED.
One Scheme Which the Girl's Stern
I'urent Would Mot Sanction.
"Please, mamma, pleas.:"
'Tapa, I beg of you do not refuse!"
CordeliaPasdetoul clung wildly about
her fond but obdurate mother's neck
and rained kisses upon her cheeks,
while Anastasia, her sister, did like?
wise to her father.
Hut their pleading seemed of DO
avail. The elder Paadetoota shook
their gray beada firmly in negation,
though it was evident that the neces?
sity of refusing their daughters' re
ipiest pained them beyond measure.
Gently, but with decision, as one
shakes a hard shelled crab from out a
scalp net, the parents disentangled
[heir daughters' arms from their shout
lers; then, mastering his emotions, the
Lather said:
"Ni., Anastasia nnd Cordelia, what
i,oii ask of us is too much: Never be?
fore have we refused a request of
yours. We have moved from city to
?Ity, from state to state, to the Injury
>f my business and the destruction of
rour mother's health, in order to de?
ceive people as to your ages. For the
asl ten years it has been nothing but
novo on for us, for every time the peo?
ple of one place would begin to suspect
,-oiir true ages you have Insisted on us
tacking up and going elsewhere, that
rou might start anew nt 22 and 23, re?
flectively. We have submitted to this
lomadk Hie for our love of you, but
..ur most recent demand ls too much.
