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'em it was your own yacht? Why didn't you tell 'em you're worth a few

millions and don't have to work?"

"I don't know--ales and

things But tellabout that Sally

M mine business, did you?"

"No, I should say not! Didn't you tell h, the way old Dan and your--sainted father

handed it to each other over that mine, wasn't it? I know about it,

for I promoted that ton, with the Byington left off! There wasn't a blasted thing in

it then But when you--like a blaood

for six thousand a month velvet, and ore blocked out to last a

thousand years--why, then you fool around in Papa's records, and think

Papa wasn't on the square with old Dan So on the quiet you get it all

hter; and take a sneak into the

hazelbrush when she turns you down! Say, you knohat I'd a-done?"

"No"

--"I'd a-held on to the in' in--that's irl

both, maybe!"