ONLY WHAT HE ASKED FOR.
Eleven o’clock was the hour. The young lady was both bored and tiled, for roung Brown’s presence was almost as distasteful to her as were bis attentions. But, try though she would, sho could think of no means o£ getting rid of him.
Half an hour passed. Still young Brown sat on, talking, talking, talking, then ho turned the conversation to the question of' his health. “Yes, Miss Mollie,” he said, “I know I’m not strong, and that sort of thing. In fact, if the truth be told, it's only my nerve that keeps me up at all.”
The opnortunity for retort was obvious. But Miss Mollie, being a Alice girl, deliberately abstained from making ’use of it, until suddenly the tempration overcome her. “Well, Mr. Brown,” she remarked sweetly, “that’s funny. It’s been keeping me up too.” And the young man departed slowly, sadly, for ever and a day.
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 696, 3 January 1922, Page 6
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