POOR LITTLE INNOCENT.
i! What is the matter?” inquired her dearest friend, as she was ushered into the boudoir of her newly-married chum and found, instead of the vision of happiness rhe had expected, a dishevelled heroine largely dis til red in toars. '• What is the matter? ” ” Algernon has gone away for a week ” " But, my child, you don’t mean to say that you are such turtle doves that you can't spare liiin for a week without making a scene like this? ” *• Oh. no; it isn't that at all! Of course, it is hard to live alone, but he has at last shown me what a monster ‘‘ Why, this is shocking! Whnt can no havo done?' You haven’t found he v as already married, or ” ” No, no, m>: It’s only that he is a heart less, miserly creature. Only think! I asked him to leave me a cheque to pay for things while he was away ” Weil, surely he didn’t refuse? ” “ No; worse than that—far worse! He just wanted to wound and humiliate me! Ho l"ft me a cheque, all dated and signed, complete, except that he didn’t j'llt anv amount in! AVa'ii’t that very cruel? ”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 261, 21 October 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)
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196POOR LITTLE INNOCENT. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 261, 21 October 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)
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