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"Then don't say any more, Sir Francis," replied Mr Solomon quietly

"I've been your servant--"

"Faithful servant, Brownsmith"

"Well, Sir Francis, `faithful servant,'" said Mr Solo,

"these twenty years, and you don't suppose I' to heed a word or

two like that"

"Thank you, Brownsmith," said Sir Francis, and he turned to Ike and

spoke sharply once more

"What regihth Hoozoars, Captain," said Ike, drawing hi at

attention

"Colonel," whispered Mr Solorowled Ike

"Well, then, Isaac Barnes, speaking as one old soldier to another, I

said words to you to-night for which I a your

pardon"

"God bless you, Colonel! If you talk to me like that arterward, you may

call me what you like"

"Eh?" cried Sir Francis sharply; "then I will How dare you then, you

scoundrel, go and disgrace yourself; you, an ex-British soldier--a etting drunk?

Sharowled Ike "I desarve it"