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x 750 but he was still waiting up when I went to sleep, and in the morning he was awful worried. ‘“He took mamma in the kitchen and talked an awful long while, and when they came out they told me I wasn’t to say any- thing about Joe to anybody, not even let on that we knew him or ever expected him to call us up; but of course it’s all right when you're a friend of his! If you see him I wish you’d tell him how I miss him!” ARGOSY-ALLSTORY WEEKLY. “J shall.” Cliff dared not glance at Eth- el, but he felt rather than heard her quick- ened, tremulous breathing. He staked everything on a final question. ‘“‘ Do you know where Al’s old mother lives? He calls her ‘ the old woman.’ ” “That isn’t his mother!” Bessie giggled. ““That’s his sister. She takes a lot of his friends to board over at her house at Brook- field. If you see Joe, tell him I think he is mean to go away without saying good- TO BE CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK 0 U LOVE’S FOUNDATION "TIS no new theme that I am springing— ‘Tis my own girl that I am singing. (Now were you writing this, you’d say The selfsame thing the selfsame way.) It isn’t who the girl, or where; so She is my girl—thkat makes me care so. It matters not what folk she’s born to, Nor where I wrote, this very morn, to, That she might view the words I’d penned her— Because she’s mine do I defend her. She may not seem to you a spry girl, But by the nine red gods she’s my girl! J ask not in what zone or climate The miss was bred, so she is my mate; Eastern or Western, Northern, Southern— Nowhere at all is such another’n. Though breathing balsam, fir or cypress No other lips match those that / press. Yet should she cease to care so for me, As sure as fate that girl would bore me! To you this may appear digression, But it is merely a confession. All honest folk, if you will quiz ’em, Will own that love’s half egotism. Strickland Gillilan. Comicoookxs (©)