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"I am afraid my father has misled you with his irreverent expressions He will have to atone by explaining"

"You see, Doctor," said Mr Bellingham, "Ruth is a literary searcher--"

"Oh, don't call ests the feator"

"Very well, investigator or investigatrix, if you like She hunts up references and bibliographies at the Museu that has been written on a given subject, and then, when she has craoes to her client and disgorges and craes into the Press"

"What a disgusting way to put it!" said his daughter "However, that is what it amounts to I am a literary jackal, a collector of provender for the literary lions Is that quite clear?"

"Perfectly But I don't think that, even now, I quite understand about the stuffed Shepherd Kings"

"Oh, it was not the Shepherd Kings ere to be stuffed It was the author! That was mere obscurity of speech on the part of my father The position is this: A venerable archdeacon wrote an article on the patriarch Joseph--"

"And didn't know anything about hiot tripped up by a specialist who did, and then got shirty--"

"Nothing of the kind," said Miss Bellinghaht to know; but the expert knew more So the archdeacon coypt at the end of the seventeenth dynasty, which I have done; and to-o and stuff him, as ham interrupted, "the archdeacon will rush forth and pelt that expert with Shepherd Kings and Seqenen-Ra and the whole tag-rag and bobtail of the seventeenth dynasty Oh, there'll be wigs on the green, I can tell you"

"Yes, I expect there will be quite a lively little skir the subject, she etic attack on the toast while her father refreshed himself with a colossal yawn

I watched her with furtive ad interest In spite of her pallor, her weary eyes, and her drawn and alirl; and there was in her aspect a suggestion of purpose, of strength and character that marked her off from the rank and file of wolance at her or turned to answer some remark addressed to eneral undertone of depression, was yet not without a certain caustic, ironical hu person, but very decidedly interesting