Page 169 (1/2)

"It was randfather "I never

believed your story at all,-you were too perfect in the

part!"

"Well, I didn't greatly mind the valet business; it

helped to hide my identity; and I did like the hu, after

we came out here, wasn't so pleasant"-he looked at his

hands ruefully-"but this joke of Mr Glenar

a will and then going to Egypt to see ould

happen,-that was too good to miss And when the

heir arrived I found new opportunities of practising

a's efforts to enlist

ave reater opportunities There were

ti; I got tired of being suspected, and of playing

ghost in the wall; and if Mr Glenarot here

just as he did I should have stopped the fight and

proclai to

s, sir" And he threw

into the "sir" just a touch of irony that lad I' at Bates "Life is ht possible Bless my soul!" he said, "if it isn't a

shame that Bates can never cook another orandfather from the

boat-house, and Stoddard, Larry and I started across the

ice; the light coating of snowco