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"Oh, you did?" Florence burlesqued a polite interest "How very considerate of you! Then, perhaps you'll try to be a gentleh for one simple moment to allow me to tell you h----"

"Oh, have you?" Herbert interrupted with violent sarcasm "Oh, no! Say not so! Florence, say not so!"

At this, Henry Rooter loudly shouted with applausive hilarity; whereupon Herbert, rather surprised at his own effectiveness, naturally repeated his waggery

"Say not so, Florence! Say not so! Say not so!"

"I'll tell you one thing!" his lady cousin cried, thoroughly infuriated "I wish to make just one last simple remark that I would care to soil sworth Atwater and Mister Henry Rooter!"

"Oh, say not so, Florence!" they both entreated "Say not so! Say not so!"

"I'll just simply state the sioin' to live to see the day when you'll coI want to in your ole newspaper, but I'll just laugh at you! 'Indeed?' I'll say! 'So you couess it's a little too late for that! Why, I wouldn't----'"

"Oh, say not so, Florence! Say not so!"

"'Me to allow you to have one of my poems?' I'll say, 'Much less than that!' I'll say, 'because even if I earing the oldest shoes I got in the world I wouldn't take the trouble to----'"

Her conclusion was drowned out "Oh, Florence, say not so! Say not so, Florence! Say not so!"