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stand a sissy-and yet yon marrieJ. a little five-foot-four feather-weight specimen of humanity, who hasn't the fighting spirit of a turtle-dove, aud "·hom the threats of a twch-e- year-old kid would frighten into hysterics. You arc patriotic and can't stand a slacker-yet when I throw up everything, don the uniform, and try to make a man of myself for you, v.-hy you marry a slacker.
"Peggie, all this time I've been working to make a man of myself, so I could win you as you said I could. I come home and find you married. 1\ow, I'm going to do what any red-blooded man would do--I'm going to kill you and then myseH."
w~\o--no," she cried, her eyes wide with terror, "you can't-you can't! Oh, my God! he means i t - - "
The maid helow heard two shots, and rushing into the library found her mistress lying on lhe floor ·with her head in a pool of blood, and beside her, with a bullet through his brain, lay Colonel John De "'\\itte.
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