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'twixt Beauty And Duty

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
July
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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Wnen Li Hüng Chang came to thiu country Richard Harding Davis came on the same ship. Li was Lord High Executioner, as it were, and nis adopted son, a nobleman of degree, was Lord Hlg-h Everything Else in his suite. Now, the English and Americana recognize the greatness of the one and only Richard, but, not having hobnobbed with Chinese nobility, the soul of Dickie longed to impress them. And one day his chance came. Davis was sittiog In the saloon with Li's son when up came two pretty young Americans, socially unknown, who were coming out with Chevalier's company. Both held autograph books, which they put down before the Chinaman and Dickie. "Mr. Davis," one of the girls asked, courteously, "we wanted to know if you gentlemen wouldn't write in our albums?" "You must excuse us," Davis said, frigidly, "I never wrlte except for money." "Really!" exclaimed the nobleman who spoke perfect English, pulling the book towards him. "You only write for duty? How fortúnate. I write for beauty." Dickie doesn't fancy the Chinese.

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