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So I went

I had been back in my room some twenty hes entered He was a genial man, in the

early forties I should say, tanned by soray at

the temples

"My dear sir," he said without prea

business!"

"Decidedly," I answered "Will you sit down?"

"Thank you" He sat and gazed frankly into ly, "are a most suspicious tribe--often without reason I

am sorry you happen to be involved in this affair, for I may say that

I fancy you to be exactly what you seem May I add that, if you should

ever need a friend, I am at your service?"

I was touched; I thanked him as best I could His tone was so

sy hi in love with a garden; of

the startling discovery that the captain had never heard of his cousin;

and of my subsequent unpleasant position He leaned back in his chair

and closed his eyes