SCHEME WORKED TOO WILL.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 50, 12 May 1910, Page 3

SCHEME WORKED TOO WILL.

A clever parlourmaid hurried C» *«* young mistress one evening a*<& "fcid breathlessly : "Oh, Miss Fanny, both of them wwm, gents you are engaged to has cafhm, a«n they're in the parlour together, and tMH-; how they've found out you've b*eu £>ttej to each, and it looks to me as if tbarafi ooinK to be some terrible trouble." i " What shall Ido ? What B hall Ido S", Miss Fanny moaned, as her powdtr puff dropped from her nerveless fingers. I "I'll fix it," said the clever maid, after a moment of deep thought. " I'll go and say you're crying your eyes out because your pa has lost all his money. Then yon can keep the one what stays." I " Good, good !" Miss Fanny cried. I "The maid withdrew. Some minutej passed. Then she returned with an awei face. ■:'-., ~ .„.„-- " Both gents is gone," ahe ago, ~