OF NO IMPORTANCE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XX, Issue 1119, 21 September 1911, Page 23

OF NO IMPORTANCE.

It was at the second waltz of the East End “shilling hop” that Eliza met Horace.

From that minute forth they never for an instant parted. They danced and sat out the items alternately. Yet, seventh heaven as he was in, there was something that troubled Horace, caused him to start suddenly at times, and to glance about him suspiciously. At midnight he resolved to unburden his manly bosom of its care. “It’s funny, ’Liz,” he whispered tragically, “but that glum-looking chap over there by the conservatory door ’as been a-follerin’ us wherever

we goes. Wot’s ’is little game? ’Oo is ’e?” “ ’Im?” carelessly replied Eliza, following the direction of her partner’s gaze. “Oh, ’e’s the bloke wot bought me my ticket!”