He had never thought this about his wife People had said how extraordinarily Aylmer must have been in love to have married that uninteresting girl, no-one in particular, not pretty and a little second-rate.

Potts saw his girl, tired of waiting, taking up with another fellow.

"And does he make you happy all the time?" asked the girl wistfully.

The Box Office man told the Programme-girl, The Theatre all was in quite a whirl.

" When the whipping was over, Mary took the girls into her room.

She done a lot of favors for me in her way, but the minute I find out a girl ain't self-respectin' I'm done with that girl every time.

So you love the girl?

Well, let's hope he'll meet some charming girl and bring her back as his bride.

Edith knew the girl by sight, knew perfectly well that she was Vincy's friendthere was a photograph of her at his rooms.

" And having delivered himself of this surprising comment, the janitor saluted and ambled off into the school yard, leaving the girls to look after him with laughing eyes.

AndEdith!' 'Yes?' 'I don't want to interfere between mother and daughterI know you're perfectly capable and thoroughly well suited to bringing up a girl, but I really do think you're encouraging Dilly in too great extravagance.' 'Oh!

I know so little about the tribes, except those who come to Calabar or send their girls to our Institute.

" "La, uncle!" cried the girl, "who is to distinguish friend from foe in a mellay?

I like a girl with whom you can get on without going through the process of thawing her first.

It's only since I got my girl that I ain't the plunger I used to be.

CHAPTER VI THE GATHERING OF THE CLOUDS "Mr. Gregg," exclaimed the girl with agitation, as she put forth her black-gloved hand, "II suppose you knowyou've heard all about the discovery to-day up at the wood?

" "I think so too," replied the girl, seriously.

An old permits a man to kiss a girl who is standing under mistletoe. establishes many peculiar idioms in a language.

A fat woman, of a sanguine temperament, holding a little girl by the hand, then stepped up and showed her fingers.

Would the fact that the mare had been out during those mysterious hours when everybody had appeared to be absent from the house, saving the one young girl whom they afterwards found stark, staring mad with delirium, serve to awaken suspicion of her close and personal connection with this crime?

Under the shadow of the wide brim furtively he watched the girl.

"The idea of calling a homely girl a gold brick!

He hated the idea of spying upon Edith Morriston; after all, if she chose to walk and talk with this man it was no business of his; but a supreme distrust of Henshaw, unreasonable enough, perhaps, but none the less keen, made him suspicious that the man might be playing some cowardly game, might have drawn the girl to him by unfair means.

Carry off FRITZ and I'll carry off the girl.

At first it was feared this would result in keeping the girls up nights, but it was finally arranged that all the copy they furnished would be turned in by nine o'clock, and Miss Briggs, the telegraph editor, would attend to anything further that came in over the wires.