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"Teach you quick enough Everyout of your hand He's a ; you can't show 'erateful Lose caste if you

do I rather et it

out Fascinating! But my liver turned over once tooup to buy a picture"

The step outside was firm and unwearied by the climb The door opened

unceremoniously, and Courtlandt came in He stared at the colonel and the

colonel returned the stare

"Caxley-Webster! Well, I say, this globe goes on shrinking every day!"

cried Courtlandt

The two pu each other up critically Then

they sat down and shot questions, while Abbott looked on bewildered

Elephants and tigers and chittahs and wild boar and quail-running and

strange guttural nas

in the Hills; stupendous card games; and what had become of so-and-so, who

always drank his whisky neat; and what's-his-name, who invented cures for

snake bites!

Abbott deliberately pushed over an oak bench "Am I host here or not?"

"Abby, old

out his hand "My apologies; but the colonel and I never expected to see

each other again And I find hi with you up here under this roof

It's marvelous"

"It's a wonder you wouldn't drop a fellow a line," said Abbott, in a