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"I aood boy He couldn't long follow the impulses of his father I dare say he could be a sinner if he tried, too I' hate an imbecile An imbecile to my mind is the felloithout the capacity to err intentionally God takes care of the felloho errs ignorantly Give s which , and I'll trust his that will let hio after they die--I mean the Yale and Harvard chaps who bore you It takes a clever chap to have any standing at all in purgatory Where do they go, Jane? You are wise for your years and sex There surely must be a place for the plain asses?"

"Oh," said she, "I suppose they have a separate heaven, just as the dogs have"

"No doubt you're right," he agreed, ss are as a rule"

"Bobby Rigby says a dog is worth , he says"

"I saw hiht Did you meet Mr Harbert?"

"No Mother said he ca? I think she--er--coht?"

"She has such a frightful headache that she couldn't get up this "

"Indeed? Will you carry my respects and sympathy to her?"

"Thank you, yes But why don't you coladly"

Bansemer was not approached by Harbert that day nor the next--nor any other day soon, in fact It was not until after the third day had expired that he heard fronificant; itwith herself--that she had taken no one as yet into her confidence He was too wary to feel secure in his position, however He abandoned every case that could not be tried in the cleanest light and he destroyed his footprints in those of the past reeable when they ether the situation did not look so dark as it had on the night of the blizzard

He guessed at Mrs Cable's fra the three days just past by the tenor of her e over the telephone She did no more than to ask him to drop in before five for a cup of tea; but he saw beyond the depth of her invitation