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"Do you know, if a person takes potatoes, or baled hay, that does not belong to him, it is stealing, but if a melon elopes with a boy, or several boys, the melon is always considered guilty of contributory negligence," and the old man laughed and winked at the boys. "But a house is no place to eat a melon in, and a knife is not good enough to cut a melon.
As she stood, her little black and ivory head was not much above the level of mine. "What they may say is a matter of perfect indifference to me." I bent forward. "I think I ought to tell you what Jaffery's practically last words to me were: 'There's only one woman in the world for me. Meaning you." She broke away with a laugh. "And to prove it, he elopes with the fat woman!
The deserting man, unless he elopes with another woman, generally goes to some cheap lodging house or, if of foreign birth, he may seek out the quarter where those of his nationality reside and become a lodger in a family in which his native tongue is spoken. Hence, a canvass of the lodging houses armed with a photograph if possible is a desirable first step.
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