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"Early to-, sir"

"I will not atte the difficulty,"

said he, with a faint smile, "but a letter addressed to me at

Lincoln's Inn will always find , he rose, bowed, and having shakenthe door behind hi up and down, "Peter, you

are a fool, sir, a hot-headed, self-sufficient, prag

fool, sir, curse me!"

"I am sorry you should think so," I answered

"And," he continued, regarding me with a defiant eye, "I shall

expect you to draw upon me for any sum that--that you may require

for the present--friendship's sake--boyhood and--and all that

sort of thing, and--er--oh, da his unwilling hand, "I--I thank

you from the botto his hand away and

thrusting it hurriedly into his pocket, out of farther reach

"Thank you, sir," I reiterated; "be sure that should I fall ill or

any unforeseen calaratefully accept your generous aid in the spirit in which it is

offered, but--"

"But?" exclaimed Sir Richard

"Until then--"