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Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924

"Michael O'Halloran"


"God be praised!" exclaimed her father.
"God be _fervently_ praised!" echoed her lover.
Before she retired Leslie visited the slippers.
"I'd like to know," she said softly, as she touched a bronze striped
calyx, "I'd like to know how I am to penetrate your location, and find and
fashion anything to outdo you and the squaw, you wood creatures you!" Then
she bent above the flowers and whispered: "Tuck this in the toe of your
slipper! Three times to-night it was in his eyes, and on his tongue, but
his slowness let the moment pass. I can 'bide a wee' for my Scotsman, I
can bide forever, if I must; for it's he only, and no other."
The moccasins soon had been ground to pulp and carried away on a non-skid
tire while at three o'clock in the morning a cross, dishevelled society
woman, in passing from her dressing room to her bed, stumbled over the
osier basket, kicking it from her way.

CHAPTER III

_S.O.S._

Mickey, his responsibility weighing upon him, slept lightly and awakened
early, his first thought of Peaches.


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