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CAYBIGAN

son, so my so-called marriage is a void.
mit me to marry Señorita Constancia de la Rama y Lac-

Hoping sir, that Remorse will soon cause your heart to weep I am

No longer your pupil and assistant-maestro

Mauro Ledesma y Goles.

"Thunder!" exclaimed the Maestro, suddenly again belligerent. "Let's get after him!"

But the Maestra had picked up the letter and was reading it.

"Oh," she said, when she had finished; "oh, that is very nice. Now I can—what you call?—ah, divorce; I can divorce—just like an American girl!"

And thus it is that the Girls' School of Balangilang is still the envy of the maestros for leagues around.