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Show Instantly Then ments. discussing the After fifteen knew there Page Seven | JANUARY, 1921 I promised to cancel the order and make other arrangethere followed a long period of argument with Marie merits of the opera while | pushed hard for the theatre. minutes of this I detected tears in Marie’s voice and were tears in her eyes. cried, and “Tf I can’t go to the opera I won't go anywhere,” she I knew in just what class she was mentally placing me. had heard “All right, my dear, all right,” I answered, though I wife was probably the receiver bang and knew that by this time my night before. tearing the petals from the flowers I had sent up the I ignored My conversation with Marie was the last straw and ness of the the work on my desk as I sat and reflected on the good Creator in allowing such a perverse race to live. —Dean VIOLET AND THE Fackrell, B.C. MOUSE. “O-o0-0-0-h!” Stanley Gerard looked up from his book. “O-o0-0-0-, help!” Stanley was thoroughly puzzled. Where did those screams come from? “O-o-o-o-h, mercy!” his The attic! A feminine voice! The young man rushed from and mounted room the attic stairs two at a time, and when the top, this is what he saw: A girl standing on an old trunk and a tiny mouse he reached in the middle of the floor. head The young man, much to the girl's surprise, threw back his and laughed heartily. “Well, Il like that! Can’t you the pretty girl still standing on The young man made a great I beg your pardon, I will make and he went toward the mouse help a lady in distress?” This from the trunk. effort to gain his self control. “Oh, a charge upon the enemy at once,” that quickly disappeared in a small hole. “Thank relief. goodness,” and the fair sufferer heaved a great sigh of for Then the two young people politely stared at each other about one minute. re Stanley saw a slip of a girl with hair that had seemed to captu flushed the sunbeams, and persuaded them to stay, eyes of deep blue, she had cheeks and a rather impertinent nose. But she looked as if She was dressed in a fluffy just stepped out of a picture frame. d like lavender dress, wore black mitts and a tiny hat that just looke |