BEAD TO HER.
He waa a theatric lover, and ahe didn't like his style a little bit. He was constant in hia devotion, how* ever, and that made matters worse.
She had tried gentle meana to get rid of him, but he had disregarded them with painful persistency. In thia moment of ber desperation ha felt it inonmbent npon him to propose to her, as men nnder similar circumstances ao often do.
Whioh they wouldn't if N they had any sense at all.
" Dear one," he erolaimed, hurling bunself tragically at her feet; "I lota yon* My life is yours. Will you take it P" She did not look like a murderess. "Mr Singleton," ehe responded, with calm determination, " I will."
He gazed at her rapturously. "Don't do that," ahe begged, drawing back from him as if in horror. " I bava taken your life, as you requested me to do, and you are. henceforth to all intents and purposes dead."
He seemed dazed.
"I do not, Mr Singleton," ahe continued, turning aside, " deßire to have a dead person in the house, and.it yon <.donot go away at once I shall ring for an ambulance and have you removed to the morgue." ' .
Then the dreadful situation in whioh hia own precipitate folly bad placed him wag revealed, and he removed himself with promptness and despatch.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5427, 30 November 1895, Page 3
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224BEAD TO HER. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5427, 30 November 1895, Page 3
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