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Show FATE OF THE ARBITRATOR. ; j What -Happened to the Mutual Friend ,' . ... , Peac$ . Advocate. v : The lovers had quarreled, . "I'll never speak' to you'again!" she cried. : " . "Perhaps you'll, give hie back .my ring," he retorted scornfully. "I wouldn't wear your old ring for a thousand dollars," she asserted. , "This is the end' he said. "Wait a minute," interrupted the mutual friend. "Don't forget that these are the days of arbitration, so let's arbitrate this affair." "He's entirely in the wrong," she insisted. in-sisted. ,:'It's all her fault," he replied. "Well, let's have a statement of the case from each side," said the mutual friend. " ' The girl thought it over, and her face grew ' red. ' " ' "If I tried to '-put it in words,", she said to herself; "I'd be posing ,as a little .fool." ,-. :. . ' ' Somehow her grievance wasn't tangible. tang-ible. ' " ' ' ' : The youth thought it over, and he "I'd : be a jackass to try ,to explain this thing to a cold bl&oded. mortal," he said to himself. , "Well, lot's hear what it is," said the mutaal .friend. : . 1 "."Nothing," said the youth. " "Not e thing," said the girl,, "and I'd like to know what business it is of yours anyway?" "If you annoy my fiancee' any more," said the youth, "I'll break your head. Here's your ring, Gracie." "You're so good to me, Ralph," said the girl. ."' ' . . . "Go away can't you," they both said to the mutual friend. Buffalo News. |