"My duties," she went on quietly, "are to report each evening to my chief,
Mr. Hassets, on our clients' balances. Yours has never been higher than £24
7_s._ 9_d._ during the eighteen months that I have been there. I am very
sorry, but I cannot marry you."

He looked straight into her inscrutable eyes and the right repartee froze
on his lips.

On the morrow he left at dawn, just as the birds were beginning to drop;
and before the day was over he had transferred his account from Marr's Bank
to Parr's.

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"CHAPLAIN ---- ASKS GUIDANCE FOR THE AUTHORITIES.

Prays that recent events may be prevented."--_Baltimore News._

Surely this is asking too much.

* * * * *

"British troops in Macedonia are now in possession of Deltawah and
Sindiyah, some thirty-five miles north of Bagdad, and of Falluyah on
the Euphrates, thirty-six miles west of Bagdad."--_Sunday Paper._

We know on _Fluellen's_ authority that Macedon and Monmouth are very much
alike; and so, it seems, is Mesopotamia.

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