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Show Won in Two Minutes. "Imogen," said Alphonse Terwil-liger, Terwil-liger, "I love you." The beautiful girl jumped as If somebody had touched off a firecracker firecrack-er under her chair, and exclaimed: "Oh Alphonse, how you frightened me!" "I'm fr-rry nv declaration had that effect upon you," the yorng man answered, an-swered, ti.U tsero vas deep regret -in his rich, manly tones. "It wasn't what you said," Imogen Rockingham replied, "that scared me. It was the way you said it, and the suddenness with which the declaration declara-tion came. You know you have never nev-er given me any cause to suspect that you had such such a well, such a feeling for me." "I know," he said, "but I couldn't help it. My love for you came upon me suddenly, and demanded expression. expres-sion. I had to speak." "And what," she asked as his arms closed around her and she gazed up into his Btrong, handsome face, "what do you suppose it was caused you to become so suddenly aware of your love for me?" "I don't know," he returned, "unless "un-less it was the fact that you sat there for nearly two minutes without saying say-ing a word, while I was watching the clock and keeping tab." |