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(I would give much if I could reproduce some hint

of the beauty of that word authorities as it rolled frouards!"

roared Pickering

Stoddard, sitting on a table, knocked his heels together

gently Larry recrossed his legs and blew a

cloud of sazed at the ceiling with his quiet blue eyes,

he said: "Yes; certainly, there are always the authorities And

as I have a tremendous respect for your Aestion Mr

Pickering, the estate is richer than you thought it was

It holds, or will hold, your notes given to the decedent

for three hundred and twenty thousand dollars"

He drew from his pocket a brown envelope, walked

to where I stood and placed it in rew active,

and before I realized that Pickering had leaped toward

the packet, the executor was sitting in a chair, where the

chaplain had thrown hi

his necktie into his waistcoat; he even laughed a little

"So entlemen are perfectly

welcome to it"

"Thank you!" jerked Larry

"Mr Glenarether,

and he otten to destroy those papers"

"Quite likely," I re to

know that Sister Theresa wasn't his only debtor"