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No one kneas guilty, but a youngster was suspected,

-the son of one of the richest and best-known

et hton let suspicion

attach to his own name, and, to help the boy's case

further, ran away I had not heard froht I came here and found him the defender of

this house By God! that was no servant's trick,-it was

the act of a royal gentleht in his face,

with a new arured

in the twilight, a entleman I think

ere all drawn to him; I know that a sob clutched

rasped his hand

"But what in the devil did you do it for?" blurted

lasses

Bates (I still call hihed For the first time he thrust his hands into his

pockets and stood at his ease, one of us

"Larry, you ree in our university days When I got to America I

had little money and found it necessary to find employment

without delay I saw Mr Glenarm's advertisement

for a valet Just as a lark I answered it to see

what an A a valet looked

like I fell in love with Mr Glenarht-"