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84 very hair is curled with a Cigar Stores Certificate!” he exclaimed, “and the lips that touch Egyptians shall never touch mine;  and the same goes for Turkey, Havana and  Virginia and Porto Rico.” With a courteous gesture he tore the billion dollar bill from her head, put it into his vest pocket  and fastened it with a hair pin.

It was for this alone he had lured her so far into the metropolis. Ah, yes, such things are done every day.

In another minute he was on board a Broadway car, laughing like a man who has  just heard his divorced wife has married again.

But as the poet says, “’Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have lost at  all.” Angie could tell her grandchildren  that one man had at least taken an option on her. To one man she had given her All.

That is, if she ever had any grandchildren. But to Angela Bish they seemed to be getting scarcer every day!