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"We're a pack of asinine blunderers, Landis!" Mr. Buehlor looked foolish. Then he sighed relievedly. "That clears matters for you. I'm glad. I couldn't conceive of you as anything but honest, Landis. But tell me about that legacy a pretty nice sum." "It's a romantic little story.

It kept asking itself, over and over, until in desperation Billy Louise went to bed and tried to forget it in sleep. Somewhere about midnight she had heard the clock strike eleven a long while ago she scared her mother by sitting up suddenly in bed and exclaiming relievedly: "Oh, I know; it's some new poison! He poisons them!" "Wake up! For the land's sake, what are you dreaming about?"

It did not balk, complain or hesitate. Cleanly severed ends of grass whirled into the air and floated down on the neat smooth swath left behind. Everyone smiled relievedly at the jimdandy's triumph and my sigh was loudest and most heartfelt. I edged away as unobtrusively as I could.

"The least you can do, Madame, is to give me her address." "Her address!" repeated the duke relievedly. He had had certain grave doubts, but these now took wing. Old flames were not in the habit of asking, nay, demanding, other women's addresses. "I am speaking to Madame, your Highness," came sharply. "We do not speak off the stage," said the singer, pushing the duke aside.

"I don't suppose you do," she said, with fond severity. "You never do give yourself credit for anything, anyway, Betty Nelson. But who was it, I'd like to know, that first had courage to go up and speak to that criminal?" "Oh, that!" said Betty, sinking back relievedly. "Anybody could have done that." "Perhaps anybody could," retorted Mollie practically.

"Pritchard blushed plum color to the short hairs of his seventeen-inch neck. "''Undreds, said Pyecroft. 'So've I. How many of 'em can you remember in your own mind, settin' aside the first an' per'aps the last and one more? "'Few, wonderful few, now I tax myself, said Sergeant Pritchard, relievedly. "'An' how many times might you 'ave been at Aukland? "'One two, he began.

Irving was saying as the girls came to the door, then added relievedly as she caught sight of them: "For goodness' sake, get these young ruffians out of the kitchen, my dears, or we'll not have any breakfast until noon."

Anyhow, crossness was a better symptom than apathy! "Very well," she said brightly, smiling her old, useful, cheering-a-bad-child library smile at him. "It was mostly about things I wanted to buy for myself, any way satin slippers and such. I don't suppose they would interest a man much." "Oh, that sort of thing," said Allan relievedly. "I thought you meant things that had to do with me.

They swayed their way through the chain of cars, Lilly's coach running two ahead of her companion's. "Well, good-by, Miss Parlow, I hope we meet again some day." "Good-by," said Lilly, making her way relievedly through two more cars of aisle.

Great unopened bundles of gray paper filled the center of the floor, a slim amused youth was putting the finishing touches to a telephone on the wall, and Sidney, bare-headed, very business-like and keenly interested, was watching everybody and making suggestions. She greeted Barry with a cheerful wave of the hand. "There you are!" she said, relievedly. "Come and see what you think of this.