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Show A Metropolitan Tragedy. There was tragedy In his eyes. You seo ho was very 'much In love, was poor, but pioud. Ho stood facing tho girl, his faco sot In tho linos of blank despair. Sho looked at him calmly. There was a mile regret In hor expression-nothing expression-nothing moro. "You promised mo faithfully," he said. Not alono in his words but In tho .ntonslty of his volco sho could read a bitter reproach. "I am sorry," sho said simply. "I did not know that you really cared bo much. It you would only wait If you would only glvo mo a llttlo more time" "I havo boon waiting longer than most men could boar. My trust In you was never shaken before. Now, whon my hopes havo been raised to their highest pitch" But le"st tho rendor misunderstand wo will explain that tho man was not in lovo with tho girl to whom ho was talking. Sho is agont for a laundry 'and ha3 promised that his laundry would bq dono that afternoon. Hor promise is unfulfilled and tho mnn will not bo ablo to cnll on Tho Girl with whom ho is In lovo. Sadly ho loaves tho offlco of tho laundry flngorlng tho two dimes which will Just pay for a tologram to Tho Girl, saying that ho Is ill. |