Fame and Fortune Weekly, No. 801, February 4, 1921

e house, he found Ma

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to camp there. The

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girl of your choice and live happily

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it to the owner if

somehow. Most people wouldn't worry how

the Rev. John Dobbs, pastor of a certain church. The church in question was the one that the merchant was connected with, and the pastor was a warm friend of his. She said that the Rev. Dobbs had given her a note to hand to Mr. Bacon, but she had lost or mislaid it, for it was not in her bag. The merchant asked her what he could do for her,

Dick laid himself out to please her. He appeared to have no trouble in doing so, for in a short time she made quite a number of purchases of the finest and most expensive articles, and giving her address to Dick said that she wanted the ware delivered C. O. D. at her residence that afternoon at six o'clock. Her husband would be home at that hour and would pay the bill in cash

too heavy for you," the merchant said. "It is on your way home, and as th

Dick, who was always will

dsome apartment houses on the corners. Dick took the elevated at Cortlandt street station and at ten minutes of six got out at the nearest station on Columbus avenue to the block he was bound for. It still wanted a minute or two of six when he mounted the high stoop of the handsome house whic

Patterson live

an. "Are you from Mr. Bac

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heavy vestibule door

with you?" said the man, in smooth tones,

hav

y wife has examined the articles and checked

could judge from the looks of the hall, wa

to the sitting room,

he package and the itemized bill and pointed to a chair. Then he left the room. Ten minutes elapsed, during whic

wife has O. K.'d the bill," he said

rble center table, and the boy was invited to be seated. Mr. Patterson went to a closet behind th

ee that the sum is corre

attention to the gentleman's movements. Every one, it is said, is endowed with an instinctive sense that seems to be awakened by the unseen or unsuspected presence of another person in t

t his disposal he was startled to see the form of Mr. Patterson towering about him, his arm uplifted in the act of bringing a slungshot down upon his head. The weapon was actually descending when Dick caught sight of it, and he dodged his head aside. The round iron ball swept his ear like a shot and landed just beyond his colla