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Bones started violently

"Excuseelse Do you ain?"

Honest John Staines sed so and repeated his proposition

Bones shook his head violently

"Nothing doing!" he said "Wharves and ships--no!"

But Honest John was not the kind that accepts refusal without protest

"What I'll do," said he confidentially, "is this: I'll leave the o, o up the

river under any possible circuht his knuckly fist down upon the unoffending desk, and Honest

John watched hopefully

"Now, if--yes, it's an idea!"

Bones seized paper, and his long-feathered quill squeaked violently

"That's it--a thousand members at ten pounds a year, four hundred

bedrooht---- How s multiplied by three hundred and sixty-five? Well,

let's say twenty thousand pounds That's it! A club!"

"A club?" said Honest John blankly

"A river club You said Greenhithe--that's somewhere near Henley,

isn't it?"