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Mr Wright was declai sonorously: "--Did you ever see the Devil,

With his wooden leg and shovel,

A-scratching up the gravel--"

He paused to stick a cuttlefish between the bars of a cage, and

catching sight of the first figure, instantly began to snarl a

reproach: "I rave for all you knoard Lavendar;

except you'd have had to 'give hearty thanks for the good exa the burial service is--hey? Sa for

an innocent like me, or for a senior warden Come in Simmons!

Whiskey"-He stopped short; Willia," he said; and dropped the cuttlefish "So Two

black coats at this hour of the dayWell! Out with it!

What's happened?"

"Benja into the roo out!" coh, peevish

voice "I' to die of it He's--killed hiered hi hands and pulling it fiercely down over his eyes "Keep Willy

off! I'ht him as he lurched back into a chair, and Dr Lavendar

bent over hi with tears

"It was an accident, Benjamin, either of the body or the soul--it

doesn'tbehind the chair that held the forlorn and