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Show There ' Were Others The young man . hesitatingly entered en-tered her father's presence. With a preliminary clearing of the throat and a nenrons twitch of his Angers, he ssld: "I bare come to ask If I may marry your daughter Gertrude." "You may," said the father, promptly, prompt-ly, ss he passed the cigars. "And. now, ' may I take you Into my confidence?" "Why er " exclaimed the .happy man. "Well, my boy," said his future father-in-law, "I just want to aay that as yon pais around among your friends, I wish you'd get some of them excited about Margaret, Dorothy, Bella, and Nancy. And put a couple of cigars In your pocket." |