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were heard ascending; whereupon Mr S Barnabas to be seated in the dingiest

corner, strode quickly to the door, and thus came face to face with

Ronald Barry so as to block Barryy corner, "so you've come back, then?"

"Come back, yes!" returned the other petulantly, "I had to,--mislaid

a letter,your pardon, sir, but ht you?"

The shaggy head had slid quite into the roo after it

a short, thick-set person clad after the fashion of a bargeht this 'ere be the letter as you coht it?"

"Yes! yes," cried Barry it, he tore it fiercely

across and across, and ments

into the hearth, then thrust the for you," said he, turning to the barge, I--" Ronald Barryht of Barnabas sitting in the dingy corner, and

now, pushing past S, his handso between his parted

lips

"So it's--you, is it?" he demanded

"Yes," said Barnabas, and stood up

"So--you're--back again, are you?"