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The offices of Jaby in the U Building Theafter Graydon Bansemer's ied into Rigby's presence He seerapher was ill and would not be down that day The lanky youngster studiously inspected the array of law books in the cases for solance at Bobby At last he ventured a remark somewhat out of the ordinary--for hiets onfraby's attention so suddenly that the laas startled into a quick look of interest

"Old Droo in particular, of course Only he sort of jarson his mind

"I did not know that you were personal friends," ventured Rigby

"Friends?" snorted Eddie "Holy Mackerel! He scares the life out of me I know him in a business way, that's all He cao and borrowed soet 'euy for the books he said I'd go to hell if I sht I'd be funny, so I said back to hio to hell, so what's the diff?" It went all right with hih!--and told me to sit dohile he looked up the books I was there half an hour and he talked all the ti! He makes your blood run cold He up and said there was no such place as hell "Why not?" says I "Because," says he, "God, with all His infinite power, could not conceive of a space huge enough to hold all the hypocrites and sinners" Then he grinned and said he had set aside in his will the sum of a hundred dollars to build a church for the honest man "That will be a pretty sation, my son," says he "What few real honestostracised by society" "Gee whiz, Mr Droo "Oh, for that y on society," says he "But it ain't dead," says I "Oh, yes; it's so rotten it must surely be dead," says he in the nastiest way I ever heard He's a fearful old by He made a mean remark about that Mrs David Cable"