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It was not long before they were seated together in the wainscoted

parlor over their tea and toast, which was as much as Raffles cared to

take at that early hour The difference between his reat as his coht in torer

because his spirits were rather less highly pitched Certainly his

ht

"As I have little time to spare, Mr Raffles," said the banker, who

could hardly doit, "I shall be obliged if you will round

on which you wished to meet with lad to return to it"

"Why, if a ot any heart, doesn't he want to see an old friend,

Nick?--INick e

knew you meant to marry the oldSome said you had a handsome

family likeness to old Nick, but that was your lad to see ain? I expected an invite

to stay with you at some pretty place My own establishment is broken