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"You say this young lawyer you work for, whose name I see in the _Herald_
connected with the investigation going on, is at the club house now?" she
asked.
"Yes," answered Mickey.
"He's coming past here this evening?" she pursued.
Mickey explained.
"About how much waiting on would your little girl take?" she asked next.
"Well just at present, she does the waiting on me," said Mickey. "You see,
dearest lady, I have to get her washed and fix her breakfast and her lunch
beside the bed, and be downtown by seven o'clock, and I don't get back
'til six. Then I wash her again to freshen her up and cook her supper.
Then she says her lesson, her prayers and goes to sleep. So you see it's
mostly _her_ waiting on _me_. A boy couldn't be less trouble than that,
could he?"
"It doesn't seem like it," said the woman, "and no matter how much bother
she was, I guess I could stand it for a week, if she's such a little girl,
and can't walk. The difficulty is this: I promised my son Junior a boy and
his heart is so set.


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