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"Who sent ive ht you'd need so--"

"I haven't touched it, Elias Here it is Thank you No, I won't accept it"

"I' the slip of paper

Graydon resumed his seat near theand watched Drooe of the packing "We'll soon be through," he said shortly

For an hour the ent on, and then Drooe van men were there to carry the boxes away Graydon sat still and saw the offices divested Secondhand dealers hurried off with the furniture, the pictures and the rugs; an expressed to Elias Droo the u left to do but re know about father's conviction when he offered me the place in New York?" asked Graydon as they started away

"Yes, that's the beauty of it He admires you You'll take the place?"

"Not until I've talked it all over with him--to-morrow"

Droom called a cab and the two drove over to the Wells Street roo hi the supper, which Drooht, the young arrulous talk of his host, who explained the mechanisuillotine by which a person could chop his own head off neatly without chance of failure, and the other had to do with the improvement of science in respect to shoelaces