... him impulsively Oh, Bill, she cried, piteously, why must we part like this Won't you be kind to me He looked at her dully then gravely thrust his hand into his pocket Oh, I forgot, he said, the wire will cost sixpence. Oh, Bill, Bill, how cruel you can ...

... year? he inquired when his large, yellow suit case had been firmly settled on the rack beside Bill Oldaker's shabbv old hunt ing kit-bag. Usual crowd, said Bill. General Greer, the oldest inhabitant of the Horse Guards as they call him. Frank Colinson ...

... paid over to Cheltenham by Markwell, the financier. When the bills fell due, Markwell naturally applied to Letchmere for payment. The latter repudia'ed all liability on the ground that the bills were forged. The blow had fallen now, fallen heavily enough ...

... alwaj's with us. In the course of an inter esting life I have had much to do, at one time and another, with bills. Mostly with the owing of 'em, dear old bird, suggested Tony, helpfully. Mostly is right, admitted Dunkley, and the simplest solu tion for the ...

... THE LUCK OF LADY CONSTANCE By NOEL JOCELYN WHEN people happened to mention success to Jim Delane, the genial old money-lender straightway began to talk of his wife. In the opinion of Delane, his marriage was the most successful achievement of his career ...

... to the landlord's office first thing the following morning, having paid his bill in haughty silence, he said, I wonder you have not the effrontery to send me in my wife's bill too. The landlord smiled sweetly. Zat I cannot do, said he, because Madame ...

... fortnight-- at the end of which time the bills fall due-- everything, including the ancient and stately home of the family, Swiss Cottage, is lost. At last, though he realises that, having triplicated his bills of sale, he is in danger of criminal proceedings ...

... deprecatory remarks on my lares et penates and on my flat-ette in particular, it's all very nice, but what you want is a jolly old geyser. I have one, I replied, in the shape of a gin-drinking charlady. I said geyser, not geezer. You have a bath, but what ...

... However all is weff now. My suggestion is that you should put up with me for a day or two, and then I'll take you down to the old place and you can meet the others. How wiU that do Alonzo turned his chair round and looked at his newly found friend with that ...

... right angle to his easy chair a smoking table. His yellow-shaded reading lamp, throwing into dimness the severity of his sombre old- fashioned chambers, gave a cheerful signal to the dusky square below; and through the open window came the soothing trot of ...

... astonishment he felt. Bella was not one j who cried much what on earth was there to make her cry now All he wanted was some of his old clothes and a few shillings. What yer crying for he asked again, and then he felt his wife's hand upon his arm, and knew that ...

... should have any bridesmaids, and, if so, how many, and who they'd be. They were silent it was a pleasant memory, seven years old. And and then began that confounded bickering about ways and means. You see, Roderic, we have both of us been used to control ...