A MYSTERY EXPLAINED.
Briggs : * I called on that girl last night that you introduced me to.’ Griggs : • Did you !’ Briggs : * Yes. And she’s a nice girl, old fellow, but she ■treated me very strangely.’ Griggs : * How so ?’ Briggs: * Will you believe it, she showed me into the -dining room, said she really hoped I would excuse her. No other room in order, etc.’ Griggs : * Well, that was rather strange.’ Briggs : * Bnt that’s not the worst of it. In a few minutes in comes her younger sister. We talked a little, and then -she got up and went out, leaving her younger sister to entertain me. You can bet I didn’t stsy there long.’ Griggs : • Well, I’m very sorry.’ Briggs: * Ob, that’s all right. You couldn’t help it. But what the mischief did she want to show me into the •dining-room for !’ Griggs : ‘ i’ll tell you, if you won't give it away.’ Briggs : * All right What for !' Griggs : * Well, you see, I was in the parlonr.’
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New Zealand Graphic, 20 December 1894, Page 27
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165A MYSTERY EXPLAINED. New Zealand Graphic, 20 December 1894, Page 27
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