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The oxydized silver grate, the Persian carpets, the rosewood desk, with

its Venetian glass flower vase, were all in harentlemanly clock which ticked sedately on the Adam

mantelpiece, the Sheraton chairs, the silver--or apparently so--wall

sconces, the delicate electrolier with its ballet skirts of purple silk

All these things were evidence of the careful upbringing and artistic

yearnings of the young man who "blended" for the e of Smyrna, His Majesty the

Emperor ---- (the blank stands for an exalted nae man who sat in the exquisite chair, with his boots elevated

to and resting upon the olive-green leather of the rosewood

writing-table, had long since grown fanificence in

which hean expensive

paper-knife of ivory, not because he was hungry, but because he was

bored He had entered into his kingdoined thousands of pounds to his credit in the coffers of the

Midland and Soht blue book, stoutly covered and

brassily locked, on which was inscribed the word "Sche of a most private kind and of a

frenzied calculation which sprawled diagonally over pages, as for

example: Buy up old housessay 2,000 pounds

Pull them downsay 500 pounds

Erect erect 50 Grand Flats say 10,000 pounds