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MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE
AND LITTLE NAN DID GET WELL
his forehead. He hesitated — Yes? No? Which was it? Could he hear it? God help him! He bent above the transmitter.
1 ' Yes, this is Richards — quick — what is it?" He was shaking the machine savagely, as if wrenching the words from its throat. Grey, surprised, watched him. Five minutes ago this man had faced jail
impassively, and now
4 4 You say the operation
is over? And — and "
The receiver fell from his nerveless fingers, clattering among the many-colored cards. He turned, swaying. Grey caught his shoulders and steadied him. In the banker's face comprehension was growing, and something very much like sympathy.
4 'Buck up, man," he said kindly; "you didn't take the last bad news this way. ' '
Richards choked and brushed a fumbling hand across his eyes. "Bad he cried; "my God, it's the best news in the world! Nan — my bonny girl — she's going to get well."
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Da Smarta Keed
By ROBERT A. SIMON
My leetla boy ees sruarta keed : Joost bear, I tal you wbat be deed :
Da otbra night my Oncla Joe,
Ees come and ask : "Wbat do you know
About dees Panama Canal?"
I say to beem : "I no can tal
You verra mooch, because, you see,
Eet ees no verra clear to me."
My leetla boy ees leestaneeng
And say : "I tal you av'rytheeng."
And then he tal eet to heem, too,
Joost how eet's made and what eet do.
Oh! I was verra mooch surprised ; I deed no theenk he was so wise. Then Oncla Joe ask heem : 'Who tal You all about da beeg canal?" My keed. he say to Oncla Joe: "I see eet at da peecture show."