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Scan 46
The Red Book 1908-02: Vol 10 Iss 4, 1908
20 lines. Read by computer on 14 September 2026. Printed page 479. See the scan on archive.org.
1THEODORA'S FATHER
3Theodora emerged from the elevator with a low cry of dismay.
4"Father!" she exclaimed. "We've been telephoning everywhere. Are you hurt?"
5"Not now—have been," groaned the shameless Moses, and stumbled through his fiction briefly. "So Stephen—Mr. Carlton found me in a sort of a trance on the bench yonder," he concluded. "I'm conspirators laughed, too. "Do tell me the joke," she implored. "I believe you both are overjoyed with what has happened to-night."
6"Are you, Theo?" questioned Carlton.
7"If father is," she answered, looking at him with dawning comprehension.
8"Let Stephen tell you," chuckled Moses. "Let Stephen tell you the joke, and every-
10"Any other fiddle is no use to her"
12awful sorry about the violin. Did you make out with Rugini?"
13Miss Galbraith's puzzled gaze traveled from her father to Carlton and back again. They were poor diplomatists.
14"I couldn't play a note," she said.
15"And the contracts?"
16"Torn up in a rage," laughed Theodora; and, pretense being impossible, the thing. He has a lot to tell you, Theo."
17There was a light in Stephen's face which made her own face blush happily.
18"It's funny," mused Galbraith, "how that little park puts me in mind of our old orchard. What would you give for that old orchard, girlie?"
19"All the violins in the world," said Theodora.
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