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Mr Fogg did have a voice "Five thousand dollars in your fist, my boy,

as soon as I can work the wire to New York--and there's no piker about

the man who can have five thousand flashed in here when he asks for it

You can see what kind of men are behind me What do you care about old

man Vose and his crowd?"

"There's Mr Franklin! I'll be doing adid not bluster He was silent for some time He pursed his

lips and stared at Boyne, and then he shifted his gaze to the ceiling

"It's too bad--too bad for a young fellow to turn down such an

opportunity," he sighed "It can be done without you, Boyne, in another

way The saht as well be in on it

Now letwas an excellent raconteur with a vivid iination, and it did

not trouble his conscience because the narratives he iely apocryphal

"You see," he put in at the end of the first tale, "what a flying start

will do for a man Suppose that chap I've just told you about sat back

and refused to jump when the road was all open to hi that man nowadays, do you? And yet that's the trick he