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"He-isn't-dead?"

"No Last report is that he's better this forenoon But that's the way

sos up when anybody inquires at a

hospital Now, of course, seeing that the registered copy is on its way

and Franklin is getting better, that's all the s and be annoyed I've got a scheme It

will take you out of town in a very quiet style I have telephoned down

to the docks, and there's a Vose freighter in here discharging rails Do

you live at ho-place?"

"I board," said Boyne, still wrestling with the sickening information

that he had betrayed an employer as alive; somehow the sentiment

that it was equally base to betray a deceased employer had not impressed

itself on his benumbed conscience He was now keenly aware that he

feared to

questioned, and Boyne gave his boarding-house address

"We'll drive there, and I'll wait outside in the cab until you can

scratch together a gripful of your things Don't load yourself down too

ot plenty of cash in your pockets"

A little later Fogg escorted the young -plank of the

Nequasset, fro rails was