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"Bates, if you can give us soo for the present"

''Yes, sir"

"And Bates-"

He paused and Larry's keen eyes were bent sharply

upon him

"Mr Donovan is a friend ill be with me for

some time We'll fix up his roo him

"What do you think of that fellow?" I asked

Larry's face wore a puzzled look

"What do you call him,-Bates? He's a plucky fellow"

Larry picked up fro candelabrum

hich Bates had defended hirinned

"The felloent out through the front door

probably isn't feeling very well to-day Yourlike a windmill"

"I can't understand it," I muttered "I can't, for

the life of iven battle to

the eneest rascal of the bunch"

"Hu me what kind of a tallow foundry this is?

I never saw so many candlesticks in my life I seem

to taste tallow I had no letters frori of ennui, and here you are in an establishht to be the imperial residence of an Eskimo

chief Possibly you have crude petroleum for soup and

whipped salad-oil for dessert I declare, a h candle-power of luhed "And