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His Family

CHAPTER V
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"Suppose while we're waiting we have a smoke." He kept it up back into his den.

There the suitor refused a cigar and carefully lit a cigarette.

Roger noticed again how young the chap was, and marriage seemed so ridiculous! All this feverish trouble was for something so unreal! "Well, sir," the candidate blurted forth, "I guess I'd better come right to the point.

Mr.Gale, I want to marry your daughter." "Laura ?" "Yes." Roger cursed himself.

Why had he asked, "Laura ?" Of course it was Laura! Would this cub be wanting Deborah?
"Well, my boy," he said thickly.


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