The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-29

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he inquired, determined not further to
discuss the lady.
ELEVEN o'clock
Bert went into the house, half
! amused and wholly vexed 1t might
| be very funny to see this laundering
big boor making a fool Of himself
but the joke was entirely ruined by
the fact that at the same time he was
| making a fool Of everybody else.
| Bert knew, to the share, how much
street railway and Gas and Electric
stock Marley held. The growing city
I needed vastly increased transporta-
| ton facilities, and with the increase of
these would come an increase of Mar
ley wealth and influence. It might be
very handy thing for a young real
estate dealer to have the president Of
a rapidly expanding street railway
company for father-in-law. He went
to sleep, dreaming pleasantly of ex-
tensions and subdivisions and advance
information on factory sites-and of
Molly, of course!
He awoke determined TO concra+o
these dreams or to dismiss them and
find others. Molly had either to ac-
cept him. or definitely to turn him
loose after what other fish there might
be in the sea- The absurdity of hav-
ing Sledge for a rival was too much to
endure.
He went to his Office dividing this
train of thought with his plans for the
marketing of the Person tract. hurried
to the First National to secure a loan of
ten thousand on the new property and
arranged at the German bank for an
extension of certain other loans which
would have to be deferred if he used
his ten thousand available funds to
complete the cash purchase which
Bendix demanded. These more urgent
matters disposed of, he called Nup
Molly.
May come out?'' he demanded.
When?D drawled a languid voice.
fright away
NO. she draw1ed again
f'But. Molly, / must see you,'' he seri-
ously insisted. @It's important"
1T always is she laughed. Whats
1t about this time?''
ooh, the, same old thing" he ac-
knowIedged, .'only more so.''
You're crowding them closer to-
gether," chided Molly. ( Moreover, this
is the first time by telephone, think"
II didn't mean it to be so,'' he apollo
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