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pretext or another, the loser's money was returned But next week,

the whole town huht--it was at

White's--he confronted ht clenched, and he stared down blindly at the floor

"And, sir, though you'll scarcely credit it of course, I--there,

before them all--I took it"

"Of course," said Barnabas, "for Her sake"

"Beverley!" exclaiht

in his eyes "Oh, Bev!" and their handselse, Dick"

"No, Bev, no, but I'ot about that

I--that I was--afraid of the fellow--he's a dead shot, they say,

young as he is--and--well, it--it wasn't pleasant, Bev Indeed it

got worse until I called out one of Chichester's friends, and winged

him--a fellow na

"Anyhow, Barrymaine was utterly discredited and done for--he's an

outcast, and to be seen with him, or his friends, is to be da his head, "I must call

upon him to-morrow"

"Call upon him! Man--are you mad?"

"No; but he is her brother, and--"

"And, as I tell you, he is banned by society as a cheat!"

"And is that so great a sin, Dick?"

"Are there any--worse?"

"Oh, yes; one

woman, or blast a reater sins!"