THE REDEMPTION OF ANTHONY
she going to take him?" asked Mrs. Crompton.
"Do pay attention," ordered The Parson.
Drake threw down his cards. “We none of us are in the humor. Why bore ourselves this way?"
"'None of us' meaning' Anthony Drake," snapped Mrs. Crompton. "Peter, those lilies make me sick."
Peter grinned. "That's what I put 'em there for!"
Mrs. Crompton rose peevishly, then laughed. "Do you remember the little boy who was spanked for being so poor in arithmetic, and how he went to the drug store and asked for a nickel's worth of 'rithmetic pills? I wish somebody would give me a bottle of temper tonic."
"Come and try a dose of ozone," said The Parson."
"All right; come along."
They went out, and Mrs. Martin went upstairs, leaving Peter and Drake alone together.
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