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"S;iy, do you see thut giil?." "Why, yes; she's a beauty, too." "Well, you can just bet ahc is. luns engaged to lier o:ice." Then there was silenco for the epace of two minutes, as tlie two men drcw near and passed the pretty young womftD. Then the young m;in In the box coat remarked: "You didn't speak to each othcr. How is Unit?" "Wel!, you see," explained the gentleman with the black niustnr.lie ml gtöy hair, "it's a very peculiar story. Sounds like a romance, but it's trui', every word of IL I met lier two years a;o down it Long liranch. She was the daughter of au old Hussiiin count, wlio w;is reputed to be worth at least a lialf COllltoa. I feil dead in lovè with her, nnd shc. seëmed to be very much attached to me. Well, you know Thompson? I invitcd hiiu dowu to stay with rae for a Week or two. He carne, of course. Nevcr knew Thompson to refuse an Uivitation, Hu met the count's daughter. They feil in love with each other at lirst siRht. Ho. proposed after he'd known her thrce days, and she accepted him. "Well, it made me mad. I know tho fellow only wanted the girl's money, so I put up a job on liim. I told him tbat the count had fuiled, and that lin wasn't worth a copper. As I expecled the blackguard went back to New Vork that nlght, and next day he wrote the girl a letter saying that he h:ul been mistaken and asked to be rèléased. Tüe girl waxed Indignant and sent him flying, and then I went to work and pfoposed myself. She accepted me. Well, all went on smoothly for a week when" "Wbat happened thenv DM you marry the girl ?" asked the box coated gentleman. "No o. You see, at the end of the week the old count died, and when bis accounts were looked up it was dtscovered that instead of having a hall' mlllion to hls credit he was iu debt to the tune oi $200,000. Of course, you see, afier that I oonldn't marry the girl very wel!, you know. Mncta as I can do to support sel