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"There! Will you be patient for a , as quietly as his hard breathing would allow He saw flashes of red between his face and the other's

"I have heard that before But how?" banteringly

"I aive my crown; man to ely, "what do you le were they that neither heard the door open and close

"Yes, my dear nephehat do you , and with feline quickness stooped and secured the pistol which had fallen to the floor Not sure of the new arrival's purpose, he backed to the wall He knew the voice and he recognized its owner

"Put it in your pocket, Mr Carlish, since there are hness?"

"Yes, sire! True to life!"

Car smoothed down his cru jovially, folding his ar adventure! Where's the story-book toin the dark, headless; fine reading for these sneaking journalists! Thunder and blazes!" with an aood leaven of despair "Well, nephew, you have not as yet answered either Mr Carmichael's question or my own What do you mean by Gretchen?"

"I love her," nobly "And well for you, my uncle, that you co her? What was a crown to me who, till now, have never worn one save in speech? You have been the king"

"Bodies s I have tried an experiment, and this is the result I wanted you to be a row up unfettered by power; I wanted you to le with peoples, here and there, so, when you became their head physician, you could ably minister to their political diseases And all this fine aoose-girl Nothing ood a philosopher as a series of blunders and mistakes I ale; but it ritten that you should put your foot in it But on top of this you have reater arde is as fine a woree to that," maliciously