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“And—and this is Anne—I mean my—my wife—Mrs. Rand. We were married
yesterday. And—and now we’re going away for a month—we’re going to
disappear. I wanted to tell you so you’d know where I was. And I
wanted you both to meet Anne.”
He paused an instant, looked down into Anne’s adoring eyes, that
stared up into his face just as they always used to, and went on with
a rush:
“You think I’ve put over something big with this company, don’t you,
Mr. Wentworth? You’ve said so, anyway. Well, I never would have been
able to do it only for Anne; she made me want to do it. She deserves
all the credit.
“You’ll have to thank her, Mr. Wentworth.”
And since all his life Jimmy believed that to be so, it probably was.
(The End.)
[Transcriber’s Note: This story appeared in the July 10, 1920 issue
of The Argosy magazine]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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