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"But, Dick,--how shall you live?"

"Oh, I have an old place at Devenham, in the wilds of Kent,--we

shall rusticate there"

"And you will give up Allory of the

Fashionable World?"

"Oh, man!" cried the Viscount, radiant of face, "how can all these

possibly compare? I shall have Clemency!"

"But surely you will find it very quiet, after London and the clubs?"

"Yes, it will be very quiet at Devenhaently, "and there are roses there, and she loves roses, I know!

We shall be alone in the world together,--alone! Yes, it will be

very quiet, Bev--thank heaven!"

"The loneliness will pall, after a time, Dick--say a s must, it seems," said

Barnabas bitterly, whereupon the Viscount turned and looked at him

and laid a hand upon his shoulder

"Why, Bev," said he, "ed, I think; it isn't like you to be a cynic You are ive you, full and

freely, because of your behavior to Cleer? I have been away only a week, yet I co with stories of your desperate play I

hear that D'Argenson plucked you for close on a thousand the other

day--"

"But I won fifteen hundred the saht, Dick"

"And lost all that, and more, to the Poodle later!"

"Why--one can't alin, Dick"

"Oh, Bev, rave head at

me because I once dropped five hundred in one of the hells?"

"I fear Ithen, Dick!"

"And to-day, Bev, to-day you are a notorious gae is here! My dear fellohat does it

all ht have been very different

in the ending but, even as he met the Viscount's frank and anxious