25/38 Is it only to save you that I am to marry Juliet? And I don't see," added Basil complainingly, "why you should jump on a chap for wishing for your happiness--" "And your own safety." "Oh, bosh! The bill is destroyed. Juliet put it into the fire, and Hale will sell the check at his own price." "His price is that I am to marry Juliet." "So that he can marry Maraquito, I suppose. I know that she loves you and that Hale is crazy about her. It's very hard on me," whined the egotistical youth, "for I want to marry her myself, only mother put her spoke in my wheel." "Dare you offer yourself to Maraquito, bad as she is, knowing what you are ?" cried Mallow, fairly disgusted. |