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Show A Story of Two Wrilora. Mr. Albert Hoss (Linn Boyd Porter) re- ceniiy ioiu now, wiien a boy, he satisfied his mind over the end of "Ureat Expectations." Ex-pectations." Ilia little tow head had puzzled itself, and wondered and speculated specu-lated over the closing chapter of the book, until to know for a certainty just what did happen on the other site of that last page seemed to him the most desirable thing in life. So when Dickens came over "and started on his reading tour the youngster mado up his mind to find out. He repressed all his yearnings for candy, and when the great story teller reached his town he was ready to go. Ho managed to mix himself up with mo crowa 01 persons wno wanted to shake hands with tho novelist, and as he stood before him and reached out his little lit-tle brown fist he gasped: "Mr. Dickens I want U ask you sumpinl" "Well, my lad, what is it?" "Did Pip marry Estellc?'' Putting one hand tenderly on the little fellow's head, while a pleased look came over his face, Dickens replied with all the confidence of a story teller who knows privately the whole future life of every one of his brain children: "Ho did, my boy, he did." New York Evening Sun. |