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I left Tho about the mosaic lobby of the theater for his

opera-hat When he recovered it, it resembled one of those accordions

upon which vaudeville artists play Mendelssohn's Wedding March and the

latest ragti the

unanswerable questions stands proh when a e and shae that, by the tihost had disappeared

However, Thoht-dollar opera-hats wereThen he crushed it under his ar behaved like an unlatched jack-in-the-box) and led the

way to the Killigrew li her lips

"No! Honestly, don't you know, I hated the thing I knew

so would happen I never realized till this h hat without feeling and looking

like a silly ass"

He laughed, honestly and heartily; and Kitty laughed, and so did her

mother Subtle barriers were swept away, and all three of them became

what they had not yet been, friends It orthto like Thomas," said her mother, later "He was

very nice about the hat Most htful

te to like him, too, hter as he dodged in and out of the throng Did you

notice how he smiled when he showed it to ht there was going to be a riot"

"He's theman I ever saw"