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He eyed me in that disdain for my stupidity which

I have never suffered from any otherof other

things during the interview"

"Your grandfather should have provided a guardian

for you, lad You oughtn't to be trusted with money

Is that bottle empty? Well, if that person with the fat

neck was your friend Pickering, I'd have a care of

what's co

hadn't entleet lost on the way fro now, and I'entle to do what he directs in that

will no matter what the size of the rewardfor

you to do But,-but keep your wits about you If a

felloith that neck can't find money where money

has been known to exist, it randfather was a trifle eccentric, I judge, but

not a fool by any ination, Jack I like the idea of it,-

the lost treasure and the whole business Lord, what a

salad that is! Cheer up, cori of people and places we

had known in other lands

We spent the next day together, and in the evening,

at my hotel, he criticized my effects while I packed, in

his usual ironical vein

"You're not going to take those things with you, I

hope!" He indicated the rifles and several revolvers