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lands, was not one that I could conterandfather had been an odd little

figure of ablack coat and a

silk hat, and carried a curious silver-headed staff, and

said puzzling things at which everybody was afraid either

to laugh or to cry He refused to be thanked for favors,

though he was generous and helpful and constantly

perfor kind deeds His whimsical philanthropies

were often described in the newspapers He had once

given a considerable sum of money to a fashionable

church in Boston with the express stipulation, which

he safeguarded legally, that if the congregation ever

intrusted its spiritual welfare to a inald, Harold or Claude, an aift, with interest, should be paid to the Massachusetts

Hulad to

feel that his money had never been a lure to reat or s the behest

of the old s of life and art had given him an undeniable

distinction

"I should like to know so of Mr Glenarm's

last days," I said abruptly