If he'll take the job, I'll app'int him deputy marshal." "I'd like a picture of you with the badge and uniform, Wick," said Edith with good-natured banter.
Just before the two ladies left for Boggs City that evening Bonner managed to say something to Edith.
"Say, Ede, I think it would be uncommonly decent of you to ask Miss Gray down to Boston this spring.

You'll like her." "Wicker, if it were not so awfully common, I'd laugh in my sleeve," said she, surveying him with a calm scrutiny that disconcerted.

"I wasn't born yesterday, you know.

Mother was, perhaps, but not your dear little sister.

Cheer up, brother.