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"Brother Peter," he said, in a wheedling yet gravely official tone,

"It's nothing but right I should speak to you about the Three Crofts

and the Manganese The Alot on my mind--"

"Then he knowsdown his

stick with a show of truce which had a threat in it too, for he

reversed the stick so as to , and looked hard at Soloht repent of, Brother, for want of speaking to

, however "I could sit up with you

to-night, and Jane with ht take your own time

to speak, or let me speak"

"Yes, I shall take my own time--you needn't offer me yours," said Peter

"But you can't take your own tian Mrs

Waule, with her usual woolly tone "And when you lie speechless you

ers about you, and you may think of me and

thought which

she was attributing to her speechless brother; the

"No, I shan't," said old Featherstone, contradictiously "I shan't

think of any of you I've made my will, I tell you, I've made my

will" Here he turned his head towards Mrs Vincy, and sed some