“Doesn’t matter how you put it, boy. It’ll be her say-so from now on. Don’t I know her? Hasn’t she bossed me scandalous since she was knee-high to a gosling?”

“Now, Dad, you’re giving me a bad name,” Betty protested, hugging her father.

“If he ain’t man enough to stand some bossing, he’d better quit right now before he says, ‘I do.’”

He likes being bossed, Dad,” Betty announced, and the imps of deviltry were kicking up their heels in her eyes. “Don’t you, Tug?”

Hollister looked at the girl and smiled. “I’ll say I do,” he admitted.

THE END

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