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"Oneto have a two days'

vacation in the country, I may as well make it do one last business

errand for me"

He called Bradish to the desk by a side jerk of the head

"I want that check put into the hands of the brokerage firm of Mower

Brothers as quickly as possible My car is at the door, and ithim"

He did not present Bradish to Miss Marston Bradish did not expect the

financier to do so But this dis lady staring hihtened

way--did cut the pride a bit, even in the case of aon thelady--then a party unknoas evidently bent

upon an escapade incog--had encircled this selfsa eous Broadway public

ball-rooirl friend on viands for which

his twenty-five-dollar check had scarcely sufficed to pay