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catch you in their net Sister Theresa is said to have

quite a winning way She certainly plucked your grandfather"

"Nuns in spectacles, the gentle educators of youth

and that sort of thing, with a good-natured old ht so," re,-and he

pulled his watch froers He was short, thick-set and

sleek, with a square jaw, hair already thin and a close-clipped

hi hiarette case and passed it

across the table, "After you! They're et that I never use tobacco in any for,"

I observed, throwingmatch into his

waste-paper basket, to his obvious annoyance "Well,

I'm the bad boy of the story-books; but I' tied to it I'm about out

of money I suppose you wouldn't advance me a few

thousands on my expectations-"

"Not a cent," he declared, with quite unnecessary

vigor; and I laughed again, reenerosity had not been represented

in large figures "It's not in keeping with

your grandfather's wishes that I should do so You

exploits," he added