10-Story Book, July 1931 — page 34: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

The Absent Minded Gets Her Sur Back: had formerly averaged only about “C minus,” and they wondered at teacher’s generosity. ) ep est It was truly a lovers’ night—had there been any lovers. The soft moonlight fil- tered through the trees, and the roses exhaled a perfume so exotic, and the night birds sang so entrancingly that Paradise seemed near. But this is not a love story, so we hasten. ‘So you see, Miss Graydon, there was a ‘method in my drunkenness,’ to slightly paraphrase Hamlet; yet what I cannot understand is the object of the anony- mous letter. Just why anyone should forbid me to dispose of my own property, I am at loss to account for. “«__ Furthermore,’ the letter read, ‘do not come near the place or molest it in any way. Withdraw your ad from the paper offering the land for sale, or take the consequences. If you attempt to se- cure officers to investigate this letter, OO <S COMNMIC (SO