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www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It wasn't Archie's fault really. Its true he
went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a
millionaire hotel proprietor and if he did marry her--well, what else was
there to do? From his point of view, the whole thing was a thoroughly good
egg; but Mr. Brewster, his father-in-law, thought differently, Archie had
neither money nor occupation, which was distasteful in the eyes of the
industrious Mr. Brewster; but the real bar was the fact that he had once
adversely criticised one of his hotels. Archie does his best to heal the
breach; but, being something of an ass, genus priceless, he finds it almost
beyond his powers to placate the man-eating fish whom Providence has
given him as a father-in-law