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His father bustled around to the other side of the table "That

doggoned nigger brought up Kentucky instead of Monongahela!" He lifted

the decanter and began to fill the glasses

"Hold on! hold on! Don't swamp us," said Dr Lavendar, He leaned over

to rescue his tu made an instant's

break in the intensity

"Have so to his son

"I--do not drink" The banker uncoiled his leg, and put his hat on the

floor

His father pounded the decanter down on the table "Siht the rest of these laers have no sense"

Silea over the laht insisted upon filling Dr

Lavendar's tumbler hiskey until it overflowed and had to be

sopped up by the old et out of the room, Dr Lavendar settled

hiether He said to

his senior warden, briefly, that his father was concerned about Sam's

attentions to Mrs Richie; "he thinks it would be an especially good

time to have the boy see a little of the world, if you will consent?