“Hodge? Oh, of course not; but it doesn’t make so much difference about him.”
“Yes, it does.”
“How’s that?”
“I want to show him up to Miss Bellwood.”
“Eh? Why——”
“You may have your dark-eyed peach—if you can get her; give me the other girl. She’s the first blonde I ever saw who upset me, and she gave me the solar-plexus blow the instant I saw her.”
Fillmore was astounded.
“What’s that?” he gasped. “You don’t mean to tell me that you consider her prettier than Inza?”
“That’s just what I mean to tell you. She has the sweetest face of any girl I ever saw. In perfect health, I know she would be a hundred times prettier than Inza.”