The Little Red Chimney - Being the Love Story of a Candy Man by Mary Finley Leonard
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"It is the way it happens in fairy-tales," urged the Candy Man. "And I
really couldn't help it." "Of course you are right," she agreed. "As Virginia's story runs, 'He turned into a prince, and because Violetta had been true to him through thick and thin, he made her a princess.' Anyhow, Candy Man, I'm glad I chose you before your good fortune came." "It was an extremely venturesome thing to do, Girl of All Others, as I have told you before, though immensely flattering to me. I have to take the money, there is no way out of it. I believe it would break our Miser's heart if I refused. Do you know what he was proposing to do before he found the book?" "What?" asked Margaret Elizabeth. "To adopt me. You see we had come to be pretty good friends last winter, and I think he suspected from the start that I had rather lofty aspirations for a Candy Man. In a Little Red Chimney direction--you understand?" "Perfectly--go on." "Well, he saw us in the park----" "And his suspicions were confirmed, I suppose," put in Margaret Elizabeth, coolly. "Exactly. And knowing from what I had told him previously that I had my fortune to seek, it occurred to him that as the channel he had been |
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