Show ioe 7 ggs p sighed the hotel 1 stenographer looking after a girl who had just left her biesk her trouble asked the house detective second handedness handed sess answered the girl she was born that way like being born a chinaman it a something QU never get over she waa born a year after her brother shamus and when she came into the world her people were kind of poor she never had anything but second hand clothes second hand toys and a second hand baby buggy by the time she was old enough to go to school her big sister had fin dished a couple of grades ahead of her ahe always wore her big sisters old clothes made over used her big als school books and even her doll were the ones her big sister had dragged around for a couple of years when she was sixteen her turned into a beauty and left a trail of discarded lovers behind her emah tell heir to most of them I 1 alway hoped she would marry before her als ter but it seemed they dlan t do noth ing when they were with emily bui tell how much she looked like her sis ter when she wore said sisters old about six months ago sister got married leaving emily all by herself I 1 li id given up hopes of her mardyla because she baan t caught any of hei sweeties on the bounce after she bounced em she was here to tell me she Is go ing to be married she was entirely consistent too she s getting a second hand husband and sister Is going to give her her wedding dress tp be mar tied in properly Iro perly to finish up alie pic ture her second hand husband should buy her a used car and she will be happy I 1 suppose copyright by the syndicate inc 0 |