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In Luck at Last

CHAPTER IV
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And think of the glory.
Posters with your name in letters a foot and a half long--'The People's Favorite.' Why, don't they applaud you till their hands drop off ?" She melted a little.
"Applaud! As if that did any good! And me in tights!" "As for the tights," Joe replied with dignity, "the only person whom you need consult on that subject is your husband; and since I do not object, I should like to see the man who does.

Show me that man, Lotty, and I'll straighten him out for you.

You have my perfect approval, my dear.

I honor you for the tights." "My husband's approval!" She repeated his words again in a manner which had been on other occasions most irritating to him.

But to-night he refused to be offended.
"Of course," he went on, "as soon as I get a berth on another ship I shall take you off the boards.


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