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"And yet it will be a glorious day later The clouds are thinning

already," Sir Jasper went on; "strange, but I never realized, until

this uid Mr Chester forgot the mirror, and turned to stare at

Sir Jasper's back, with raised brohile the man Selby shook his

head, and smiled unpleasantly As he did so, his eye encountered

ro-head pipe,

and his thick broitched sharply together in a frown

"In an hour's tientlemen," pursued Sir Jasper, "we shall

write 'finis' to a

of you, in that hour, to relorious day, later"

Mr Chester filled a glass, and crossing to the speaker, tendered

it to hih,

his hands thrust truculently beneath his coat-tails, frowning at me

"Come," said Mr Chester persuasively, "Just a bracer!" Sir Jasper

shook his head, but next moment reached out a white, unsteady

hand, and raised the brandy to his lips; yet as he drank, I saw

the spirit slop over, and trickle fro the elass; "is it