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There were times when Mr Cresta Morris was called by that name; there

were other moments when he was "Mr Staleyborn" His wife, a placid

and trusting wo implicit faith in

the many explanations which her husband offered to her, the favourite

a that business men were seldom known by the names

they were born with

Thus the eminent firm of drapers Messrs Lavender & Rosemary were--or

was--in private life one Isadore Ruhl, and everybody knew that the

an's Superfatted Soap--"the soap with foam"--was a certain

an

Mrs Staleyborn, or Morris, had a daughter who ran away froing Director of Schemes

Limited, and there were odd uely uneasy about her child's future She had often, indeed,

shed tears between five o'clock in the afternoon and seven o'clock in

the evening, which as everybody knows, is thetime of

the day

She was, however, one of those persons who are immensely comforted by

the repetition of ancient sahich becoinal every tis was "Everything is for the

best" She believed in miracles, and had reason, for she received her