“My God! Don’t keep me waiting in this manner,” said the excited young man. “I must know how she is.”
“Well, she isn’t here,” again said the attendant.
“She must be,” broke in the visitor, “for here is a note I found on the kitchen-table when I came home from work.”
The note read:
“Dear Jack—Have gone to have my kimono cut out. Annie.”
While an Irishman was gazing in the window of a Washington bookstore the following sign caught his eye:
Dickens’ Works
all this week for
only $4.00.