"
But there was no mirth in Fanny's voice when she said,
"Dear, do you think Lasker will give me that job? You
know he said, `When you want a job, come back.' Do you
think he meant it?"
"Lasker always means it."
"But," fearfully, and shyly, too, "you don't think I may
have lost my drawing hand and my seeing eye, do you? As
punishment?"
"I do not. I think you've just found them, for keeps.
There wasn't a woman cartoonist in the country--or man,
either, for that matter--could touch you two years ago. In
two more I'll be just Fanny Brandeis' husband, that's all."
They laughed together at that, so that Albert Edward Cobbins
awoke with a start and tried to look as if he had not been
asleep, and failing, smiled benignly and drowsily upon them.
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