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"With boisterous companions!" I supplied the words

in my cheerfullest tone "No; ," I added, with affable irony

He picked up a single sheet of thin type-written

paper and passed it across the table It was a for

had prepared it in advance of , and this assumption

that I would accept the terms irritated me

Assuiven conditions

had always irritated e measure, forsunature

"How soon shall you take possession?" he asked "I

have to make a record of that"

"I shall start for Indiana to-morrow," I answered

"You are pro in

quarters the paper I had just signed "I hoped you

out; but I fancy New

York is pretty tame after the cafés and bazaars of the

East"

His reference to ain;

for here was the point at which I was most sensitive