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other across the table in the refectory that sareat candelabrum which

Bates had produced from the store-rooht hitch soe;

while the fish which Bates caused to be shipped fro failed once

or twice, and while the grape-fruit for breakfast

was not alhat it should have been,-the supply

of candles seemed inexhaustible They were produced

in every shade and size There were enormous

ones, such as I had never seen outside of a Russian

church,-and one of the rooms in the cellar was filled

with boxes of them The House of a Thousand Candles

deserved and proved its name

Bates had certainly risen to the occasion Silver and

crystal of which I had not known before glistened on

the table, and on the sideboard two huge candelabra

added to the festival air of the little roolanced about

"Here I have been feeling sorry for you, and yet you

are living like a prince I didn't know there was so

much splendor in all Wabana County"