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and threay a few francs on the little horses He came with me to the

veranda of my hotel I was surprised, when he took his leave, to find

that he regarded ht of an old friend He said he would call

on ht--for that, he told me, was

his naet

his British exclusiveness under the stern necessity of getting money

somehow, somewhere The next day, I decided, I should be the victiht see I had mentioned to him that I expected shortly to be

in London, and he often referred to the fact As the tian to throw out the suggestion that he

should like to have land This, also,

was unheard of--against all precedent

Nevertheless, when I said good-by to him he pressed into my hand a

letter of introduction to his cousin, Captain Stephen Fraser-Freer, of

the Twelfth Cavalry, Indian Arlad to h at the time--or would be

when I reached there