a play, with music, in 3 acts A NINETEEN year old girl Mabel Linney of Billingham on Tees is engaged to a man she has never seen, but to whom she has written some 200 letters and who has sent some 200 replies. She has an engagement ring of black diamonds set in gold, and will meet him at the boat when he returns to England. this year and hopes to recognize him from his photographs. The man in question is Lance-Corporal Always Hounsome, aged twenty-five, of Edinburgh, who is now serving in India.
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