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For a e look: "Sir Jasper Trent--is ro-head pipe slipped suddenly, and fell into the grass,

happily without injury

"Indeed!" said I

"Can you not see what this ht"

"Indeed," said I again, "I fear so"

"Jasper was always a bit of a fish, and with no particular

affection for his graceless kinsman, but I am his only relative;

and--and he hardly knows one end of a pistol from the other,

while your cousin is a dead shot"

"My cousin!" I exclaimed; "then if was he--to be sure I saw only

his back"

"Sir Jasper is unmarried--has no relations but myself," my

companion repeated, with the same fixed intentness of look; "can

you appreciate, I wonder, what this would mean to me?"

"Rank, and fortune, and London," said I