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"My dear fellow!" Dominey interrupted "There are a score of rooht a fire, and an old-fashioned bed-waran?"

The two men shook hands, and Seaered behind for a

"What ti?" he asked

"Nine o'clock to-," Dominey replied

"Not a word until then," Sea after you too ent"

"We can send Mangan to bed early," Doested

"I am the early bird ht To-ht was a pleasant and socialto do with the Domineys for the last fifteen years had reeked of poverty He had really had a hard struggle to reeable intervieith angry tenants, forees, and reainst these disagreeable episodes The new situation was al touch, perhaps, was in Parkins' congratulatory whisper as he set a couple of decanters upon the table

"I have found a bin of Cockburn's fifty-one, sir," he announced, including the lawyer in his confidential whisper "I thought you an seems rather a connoisseur, sir The corks appear to be in excellent condition"

"After this," Mr Mangan sighed, "it will be hard to get back to the austere life of a Pall Mall club!"

Sea, pleaded an extraordinary sleepiness and retired, leaving his host and Mangan alone over the port Doh an attentive host, seean, as not an observant ance of speech and manner, seemed temporarily to have left his patron

"I can't tell you, Sir Everard," he said, as he sipped his first glass of wine, "what a pleasure it is to me to see, as it were, this recrudescence of an old fa necessary to round the whole business off, as it were"

"And that?" Doly