THE LADY OF THE DECORATION

A Memento Of Many Happy Days
Spent Together "East Of Suez"

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Miss Mink's Soldier

Miss Mink sat in church with lips compressed and hands tightly clasped in her black alpaca lap, and stubbornly refused to comply with the request that was being made from the pulpit. She was a small desiccated person, with a sharp chin and a sharper nose, and narrow faded eyes that through the making of innumerable buttonholes had come to resemble them.