Tom Masson

“ Well, it's something to have a better half who can buy pearl necklaces every day in the year if he wishes to, even though he has to hire help to make his selection.
As the burglar picked up the candlestick once more, he turned and faced the bed. With her head on the lace pillow, a beautiful woman lay sleeping. It was rather an interesting situation. There was the burglar, with the mask over his face to conceal his identity, and the hundred-thousand-dollar necklace, that the woman's husband had given her, loosely thrown in his pocket. ”

“ Peter Blanton made some fuss about accepting a hundred-thousand-dollar pearl necklace her hubby gave her the other day, because he had asked some other woman to select it for him. However that may be, I am authoritatively informed that she is to wear it at the Bellknobs' dinner next Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Peter, as every one knows, is a thoroughbred, and not the one to turn down a necklace just because her hubby got advice. ”

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