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Show A Girl's Way. J (Lippincott's Magazine.) It was a sweltering summer afternoon. Algernon sat in the hammock and Claire occupied a wicker chair. She was very pretty and Algernon was hopelessly in love with her. He was almost in despair a3 he sat looking at her playing with his heart, and he knew it- "Oh, Claire," he pleaded, "why are you so cold?" "I am not, Algy," she protested. , "You are, Claire," he Insisted. ; ! And I say just as positively that I am not." j "Claire, Claire," he cried, "how can 1 you say that when you know you have treated me like " '. "Oh," she interrupted, fanning herself lazily meanwhile, "I thought you wer talking about the weather, Algy." |