TOOK IT ALL RIGHT.
He came down the garden path, a sad, sorrowful figure. She watched him with anxious eyes.
"How did father take it?" she asked. "He took it all right," replied the young man.
"Oh, I am so glad, George!" she
cried
"Are you?" he replied, flopping forlornly by her side. "Well, I can't say that I am, dear. At first your father wouldn't listen to me."
"Why, didn't you tell him that you Nhad two thousand five hundred pounds in the bank, as I told you to?" she exclaimed.
"I did, after all else had failed," answered George dejectedly.
"And what did he do then?"
"Do!" echoed the young man, passing his hand wearily through his hair. "He borrowed it!"
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 June 1915, Page 3
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