"I detest the deserving poor as heartily as you do.

And now I'd like to open a bottle of champagne with our breakfast." On the very day that the new sign, "Tom and Bob Parker," went up over the door of the insurance office at Wichita Falls, the junior partner announced: "Well, dad, the firm gets busy at once.

I'm off for Dallas to-night." "What for ?" Tom was dismayed by such a prompt manifestation of energy.
"I'll have to tell you--" Barbara perched herself upon her father's desk and began speaking with a note of excitement in her voice.

"I heard Henry Nelson was in town, so I went to the bank this morning to see him.

He's such a big man in the oil business I thought he might help me.