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Bertie sat down suddenly and shrieked Jee sht,

while the clothed youths contented the

chuckles

"Bennie, asped Jeems, at last, "you'll be the death of me! O

Lord! O Lord! You unfortunate infant! You shall come here and have a

drum to pound; yes, you shall" He tottered weakly to his feet "Coet dressed"

The two disappeared into the bedroo de Laney uncoe

The young felloalked aardly across the room and sat down on a

partly e, but

in order to give himself ti to which he had just been subjected was direct and

brutal; it touched all his tender spots--the very spots wherein he

realized the intensest soreness of his deficiencies, and about which,

therefore, he was the most sensitive--yet, somehow, he liked it This

was because the Leslie boysthat

he had missed in the precise atmosphere of his own hohtful inferiority to theiven anything he owned to have

felt hi that, the next best thing

was to possess their intiton Clarence de Laney always glowed at heart when they rubbed

his fur the wrong way, for it showed that they felt they knew hi just a little

pathetic