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you!"

"So say we all!" cried the others

"One thing randfather continued, "I don't

want you to think, Jack, that you would really have

been cut off under any circuypt What I wanted, boy, was to

get you holand, where

I deposited the bulk of et you That as to protect you in case

I really died!"-and he laughed cheerily

The others left us-Stoddard to help Larry get his

things together-and randfather and I talked for

an hour at the table

"I have thought thathis fine, slilasses, then rested his elbows on the table

and sht for a while that I should

certainly be shot; then at tiht

not be; but your return in the flesh was so the possibilities Bates fooled

in the church porch that foggy night was the thing that

see I knew he

was defending the house at the serious risk of his life;

and I was more puzzled than ever"