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"Abby, I'm sorry that you take this view"

"I don't care to hear any platitudes, thank you"

"I'll look you up to-y

In a little while you'll thank h with rily He threw open the door

Courtlandt was too wise to argue further He had obtained the object of

his errand, and that was enough for the present "Sorry you are not open

to reason Good "

When the door closed, Abbott tramped the floor and vented his temper on

the much abused footstool, which he kicked whenever it came in the line of

his ht More than that,

he knew that presently he would seek hiize

Unfortunately, neither of the quite conscious of the act, Abbott took down fro-pistol, cocked it, snapped it, and looked it over with

an interest that he had never before bestowed on it And the colonel,

bursting into the studio, found hi instru "Had an idea that so to happen Put that up You couldn't kill anything with that unless

you hit 'em on the head with it Leave the hted to hit a shilling at twenty yards Of course, you can't

fight him with swords He's one of the best in all Italy But you've just

as good a chance as he has with pistols Nine times out of ten the tyro

hits the bull's-eye, while the crack goes wild Just you sit jolly tight

Who's his second; Courtlandt?"

"Yes" Abbott was truly and completely bewildered