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"Anyhow,won't do If

you were to renounce this patronage and these favors, I suppose you

would do so with so what you have

already had Not very strong, that hope, if you went soldiering!

Besides, it's absurd You would be infinitely better in Clarriker's

house, s up towards a partnership, you know"

Poor fellow! He little suspected hose money

"But there is another question," said Herbert "This is an ignorant,

deter had one fixed idea More than that, he

seee him) to be a man of a desperate and fierce

character"

"I know he is," I returned "Let me tell you what evidence I have seen

of it" And I told him what I had not mentioned in my narrative, of that

encounter with the other convict