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In Luck at Last

CHAPTER IV
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What's a pretty face to them compared with the handling of a big salary every week?
That's the sort Carlotta's husband belongs to." "Well, the life will suit him down to the ground." "And jealous with it, if you please.

He comes here every night to applaud and takes her home himself.

Keeps himself sober on purpose." And then the lady appeared again in a wonderful costume of blue silk and tights, personating the Lion Masher.

It was her third and last song.
In the applause which followed, Mr.Chalker could discern plainly the stick as well as the voice of his old friend.

And he thought how beautiful is the love of husband unto wife, and he smiled, thinking that when Joe came next to see him, he might, perhaps, hear truths which he had thought unknown, and, for certain reasons, wished to remain unknown.
Presently he saw the singer pass down the hall, and join her husband, who now, his labors ended, was seeking refreshment at the bar.


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