NOT WHAT SHE EXPECTED

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13929, 12 June 1909, Page 5

NOT WHAT SHE EXPECTED

Young Mr. Chailes u:>s plainly "mbarras&ed, aud Mivs Smith knov,- what was coming, or thouubt &he did. "Er — Miss Smith," he said, feverishly, "could I — or — ~eo your father ior a moment or two?" "Certainly. Mr. Chailcs!" ami, excusing herself, slio bwopt froni the room. Presently the old man came ir>. and after a short comor-^fiti-in \iitl. Air Charles, he stepped 'o iLe dcxir. md summoned his daughter. Mr. Charles, "whoso f;ir^ v.rs lad .u.i out ajojoq <>pi i iiitoj v g\ihi j «y . : ,11113 I think I Mil! sa\ 'Gord-ni-jjit.' ' "Oh, papa," pleaded tho gul immediately her lover disappeared. ' Did he — did you " "I did!" broke in tho old mm. Kis daughter fell on his nock aivl kissed him. He held her at a; m.-> length. "I did," ho repeated, "I lotrt him fourpence to get homo with— that was what ho wanted me for."