MARY WARE IN TEXAS



by yourself, and you haven't confided once in me
or asked me a single scrap of advice. It doesn't
seem natural. But I'm not going to let you escape
me this way; I'm going down to the train in the
morning to see you off."
  Gay turned in time to hear the last part of his
sentence. "That is," she corrected, "if you are
called in time. They don't always do it at hotels
when they say they will. I've had some bad ex-
periences that way. So if he doesn't appear, Mary,
you can console yourself with the thought that
he's like Kathleen Mavourneen-' slumbering
still.' "
  "I'll be there," was the confident reply, as he
smiled down into Mary's wistful eyes and held out
his hand to say good-night. " Electric bells are
not as romantic as the ' horn of the hunter heard
on the hill,' but they're more effective when it
comes to getting a fellow up in the morning; you'll
see me sure."



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