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"How?"

"In connection with my friend Doctor Thorndyke I told you he was an enthusiast Now he is, for so to your uncle, and I happen to know that, if any legal proceedings should take place, he would very much like to keep a friendly eye on the case"

"And what do you want me to do?"

"I want you, if an opportunity should occur for hiive your father advice or help of any kind, to use your influence with your father in favour of, rather than in opposition to, his accepting it--always assu so"

Miss Bellinghahed softly

"So the great kindness that I ah your friend!"

"No," I protested; "that is where you are quite mistaken It isn't benevolence on Doctor Thorndyke's part; it is professional enthusiasm"

She smiled sceptically

"You don't believe in it," I said; "but consider other cases Why does a surgeon get out of bed on a winter's night to do an eet paid for it Do you think it is altruism?"

"Yes, of course Isn't it?"

"Certainly not He does it because it is his job, because it is his business to fight with disease--and win"

"I don't see much difference," she said "It is work done for love instead of for payment However, I will do what you ask if the opportunity arises; but I shan't suppose that I a as you do it," I said, and alked on for some time in silence

"Isn't it odd," she said presently, "how our talk always seems to cos he gave to the Museum are in the same room as the Ahkhenaten relief Would you like to see theo and look at the colour, she continued: "And I think I should like to introduce you to a very dear friend of mine--with your permission, of course"

This last addition she luned her friend to the devil, especially if of thethe acquaintance of any person whom she should honour with her friendship Whereat, to h, low-pitched and eon