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When Walters came back to tell me that his as uncertain as to the

exact date when the captain would return, I began to rave about that

courtyard At once he was s away frohted to find that on the

second floor, directly under the captain's rooaveto an

examination that could not have been more severe if I had asked for the

hand of the senior partner's daughter, they let arden was mine!

And the captain? Three days after I arrived I heard above me, for the

first tian

to fail I should have preferred to leave Archie's letter lying in

hbor only by his tread aboveto live in the same house with

him But I had represented myself to Walters as an acquaintance of the

captain's and the caretaker had lost no ti ht, a week ago, I got up my nerve and went to the captain's

rooms I knocked He called tohim He was a tall handsoure that you, -school days, would have