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Bones beamed

"There I can help you," he said "Of course it isn't necessary that

you should know anything about typewriting But I can give you a few

hints," he said "This thing, when you jiggle it up and down,Every time you hit one of these

letters---- I'll show you Now, suppose I a 'Dear Sir,' I

start with a 'D' Nohere's that jolly old 'D'?" He scowled at the

keyboard, shook his head, and shrugged his shoulders "I thought so,"

he said; "there ain't a 'D' I had an idea that that wicked old----"

"Here's the 'D,'" she pointed out

Bones spent a strenuous but wholly delightfuland afternoon

He was half-way home to his chambers in Curzon Street before he

realized that he had not fixed the rather important question of salary

He looked forward to another pleasant ood that lapse

It was his habit to rehts a

week, for Bones was absorbed in his new career

"Scheless title Bones had schemes which

embraced every field of industrial, philanthropic, and social activity

He had sche rose trees

along all the railway tracks He had sche labour colonies, for harnessing the rise and fall of the

tides, he had a schee turn-table, and, at the close of one act, could be twisted