The Girl and the Habit 207
Hello, Ben coming around Thursday even- ing? there's a gentleman going to send around a box of chocolates, and .
forty and sixty is a dollar, and one is two
About the middle of one afternoon the
dizzy goddess Vertigo whose other name is
Fortune suddenly smote an old, wealthy
and eccentric banker while he was walking
past Hinkle's, on his way to a street car. A
wealthy and eccentric banker who rides in
street cars is move up, please; there are
others.
A Samaritan, a Pharisee, a man and a policeman who were first on the spot lifted Banker McRamsey and carried him into Hinkle's restaurant. When the aged but indestructible banker opened his eyes he saw a beautiful vision bending over him with a pitiful, tender smile, bathing his forehead with beef tea and chafing his hands with something frappe out of a chafing-dish. Mr. McRamsey sighed, lost a vest button, gazed with deep gratitude upon his fair preserveress, and then recovered consciousness.
To the Seaside Library all who are anticipat- ing a romance! Banker McRamsey had an
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