The Fatal Complaint.
The- young lady travelling by xail in company -with her 6tern-looking father from Liondon to Glasgow, was evidently -not in the best of health. She was decidedly pretty, but ier cheeks were pale, and she a.ppeaxeil generally out -of sorts. _TJi-e Jtind — -if inquisitive — gentleman opposite leaned forward And 1 addressed lihe stern parent. "Your young daughter seems very ill," he remarked in a tone of ;great *yjaapathy. " "Ees, sir," replied the father, '".sh© suffers sadly." — "'Consumption, I fear?" — " Ko, sir ; lam sorry to say' it is of tho heart." — <i Dear .me! Aneurism?" — "Oh, no, eirl Only a lieutenant in the Navy !"
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Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 91
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106The Fatal Complaint. Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 91
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