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Keeping up with Lizzie by Irving Bacheller
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"'Your confession is ill-timed,' says Lizzie, as she pulled away
an' tried to smooth her hair. She began to cry again, an' added,
between sobs: 'My heart is about broken, and I must go home and get
help for my poor father.'

"'I'll attend to that,' says Dan; 'but I warn you that I'm goin' to
offer a Pettigrew for a Henshaw even. If I had a million dollars
I'd give it all to boot.'

"Sam turned toward me, his face red as a beet.

"'The money!' he shouted. 'Get it, quick!'

"'Here it is!' I said, as I put the roll o' bills in his hand.

"'Did you take it off him?'

"'I took it off him.'

"'Poor Aleck!' he says, mournfully, as he counted the money. 'It's
kind o' hard on him.'

"Soon we halted a passin' automobile an' got Sam up the bank an'
over the wall. It was like movin' a piano with somebody playin' on
it, but we managed to seat him on the front floor o' the car, which
took us all home.

"So the affair ended without disgrace to any one, if not without
violence, and no one knows of the cablegram save the few persons
directly concerned. But the price of Alecks took a big slump in
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