Better to get things like that over." "It was that kind of a letter, was it--a catfish letter ?" Kitty laughed a little scornfully.

"Yes, just like that, Mr.Easily Shocked.

Great, showy, purse-proud creature!" "And you wrote to her ?" "Yes--a letter that would make her come if anything would.

Talk of tact--I was as smooth as a billiard-ball.

But she hasn't come." "The day after the operation I cabled to her," said the Young Doctor.
"Then you steamed the letter open and read it too ?" asked Kitty sarcastically.
"Certainly not.