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"Have you fellows ever noticed that he don't get any letters froers, the one-ti him Graydon had not been the subject of conversation, but all knehom Johnny meant by "he"

"I've noticed that, too," said Joe Adaht," said one of the Spurrier boys "His people don't knohere he's at That feller's a swell at home an' he's had to skip out I'll bet my breakfast his name ain't Bansemer An' if his people don't knohere he's at, how in thunder can they write to him? See what I mean?"

"Think he's a bank cashier?" asked Siirl I know these swell guys," said Rogers "You're right about his people not knohere to write He's a mystery, that feller is I'll tell what I think: his folks have fired hiraced 'em, an' all that That's why he ain't expectin' nothin' froet it"

"I feel kind o' sorry for a feller like that," an "I had a brother that had to skip once"

"That so? Did he ever coood Mother had a letter from him couple o' months before I left home He was in Milwaukee"

"Aw, this Bansemer's not that sort He's hty oods that ," said Jim Spurrier, with a wistful look in his eyes

"S'pose we'll ever see a glass o' beer again?" asked the other Spurrier, solemnly

"I'll bet Banseain"

"Ask hiot a riddle for you What 'u'd you sooner have right now than a bottle of charoup He paused for a , a broad smile on his face

"A pail of beer," said he

"Good fer you!" shouted two or three vociferously He strode off to ht," exclaily, as if that laconic reply had been the only thing necessary to establish the young

"That feller's been out here only four months, an' I'll bet they ain't any ten men in the Philippines what's had as ers "I was thinkin' about it to-day He's had ht places than---"