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"Tio to the jeweler's for

repairs," said I owlishly

Max leaned over, took my bull-terrier by the neck and deposited hi like his master Three years,and lallygagging

at court with the nobility I wish I had had an uncle as a

senator 'Pull' is everything these days"

"You Dutchet it!"--grinning

"You are impertinent"

"But truthful, always"

And then we smoked a while in silence The silent friend is the best

of the lot He knows that he hasn't got to talk unless he wants to,

and likewise that it is during these lapses of speech that the vine of

friendship grows and tightens about the heart When you sit beside a

ood sign

that you thoroughly understand each other I was first to speak

"I don't understand why you should go in for hly

It can't be money, for heaven knows your father left you a yearly

income which alone would be a fortune to me"

"Chivalry shivers these days; the chill of --a man who is neither a sloth nor a fool Ato put his whole heart into; and I despise ive away the bulk of my income"