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I don't knohether my appreciation helped to advance my friend's

business but at any rate it helped our intercourse He treated me with a

shade of familiarity as one of the initiated

The last time I called on him to conclude the transaction ere

interrupted by a person, so like a cross between a bookh a door which was not the

anteroom door, walked up and stooped to whisper into his ear

"Eh? What? Who, did you say?"

The nondescript person stooped and whispered again, adding a little

louder: "Says he won't detain you a lanced at ot up

froain later He looked whih to lose my money but I don't want to

waste any more of my time over your friend We o and have a look at that garniture de che like it, in the castle of Laeken, but ly to the other side of that big roo to exa

forward to ht you would be

disengaged so early It's only a word or two"--and after a whispered

confabulation of no more than a minute, reconduct him to the door and