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He's always getting grinds on me," he went on, persuasively, "and now I've got this on him. You will really have to let me tell Travers." Miss Cuyler looked puzzled and said "Certainly," though she failed to see why Mr. Travers should want his head broken, and then she thanked Van Bibber again and nodded to the officer and went in-doors.

"Yes, ma'am yes, sir," answered the little girl. Van Bibber put his hands on the arms of the throne and vaulted up beside the girl, and pulled out the flower in his button-hole and gave it to her. "Now," prompted the wardrobe woman, "what do you say to the gentleman?" "Thank you, sir," stammered the little girl.

Van Bibber pulled out a chair and dropped into it. His side was towards Walters, so that he did not see him.

You were there too, weren't you?" "Me and Annie was dancing together most all the evening. I seen all youse watching her." "Of course," exclaimed Van Bibber. "I remember you now. Oh, then you must know her quite well. Maybe you can help us. We want to put her on the stage."

"Now then, Van Bibber," shouted Kripps, with a wild glance of recognition, as the white-and-black figure came towards him, "you know you're the only man in New York who gets behind here to-night. But you can't stay. Lower it, lower it, can't you?" This to the man in the flies. "Any other night goes, but not this night. I can't have it. I Where is the backing for the centre entrance?

So pay what you owe at once, or I'll call that officer across the street and tell him what I know, and have you put where you belong." "I'll see you blowed first!" gasped the Object. Van Bibber turned to the waiter. "Kindly beckon to that officer," said he. The waiter ran to the door and the Object ran too, but the tough waiter grabbed him by the back of his neck and held him.

Not that it makes much difference now. An' I don't care whether you believe it or not neither," he added, fiercely. "I didn't say whether I believed it or not," answered Van Bibber, with grave consideration.

Travers and the reporter went off to a Turkish bath, and the gentleman who held the watch, and who had been asleep for the last hour, dropped into a nighthawk and told the man to drive home. It was almost clear now and very cold, and Van Bibber determined to walk.

"I started out with two hundred dollars to-day, I spent only twenty-five dollars on flowers, I won six hundred and twenty-five dollars, and I have only one hundred and seventy-five dollars to show for it, and yet I've had a very pleasant Fourth." Of course, Van Bibber lost all the money he saved at the races on the Fourth of July.

"Hello, Standish!" shouted the New Yorker. "Wait a minute; where are you going? Why, it seems to rain Standishes to-day! First see your brother; then I see you. What's on?" "You've seen him?" cried the Boston man, eagerly. "Yes, and where is he? Was she with him? Are they married? Am I in time?" Van Bibber answered these different questions to the effect that he had seen young Standish and Mrs.

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