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"Merry Christ hearty tones was

hardly consonant with the troubled look on his face I

introduced him to Larry and asked him to sit down

"Pray excuse our disorder,-we didn't do it for fun;

it was one of Santa Claus' tricks"

He stared about wonderingly

"So you caught it, too, did you?"

"To be sure You don't mean to say that they raided

the chapel?"

"That's exactly what I mean to say When I went

into the church for my early service I found that so in a half a dozen

places and even pried up the altar It's theI ever knew You've heard of the proverbial

poverty of the church mouse,-what do you suppose

anybody could want to raid a simple little country

chapel for? And h the closet where it's kept was

upset, as though thethey didn't find"

Stoddard was greatly disturbed, and gazed about the

topsy-turvy library with growing indignation

We drew together for a council of war Here was an

opportunity to enlist a new recruit on er by reason of Larry's accession; as to

Bates, my mind was still numb and bewildered

"Larry, there's no reason e shouldn't join forces