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and suggested huskily: "Perhaps you will buy it--at his price--and transfer it to us?"

"But why? Nothing to do with ent and auctioneer

Buy it yourself Good afternoon Good afternoon!"

He ushered theenial commonplaces

In the street they looked at one another, and then beckoned Mr

Staines, aiting on the other side of the road

"This fellow is either as wide as Broad Street or he's a babe in arms,"

said the explosive man huskily

"Didn't he fall?" asked the anxious Staines

"Not noticeably," said the thin man "This is your scheme, Jack, and

if I've dropped four thousand over that wharf, there's going to be

trouble"

Mr Staines looked very serious

"Give hied "I'll try him to-morrow--I haven't lost

faith in that lad"

As for Bones, he er

"A person called Stains and two perrsons called Sole Bros Brothers

tryed me with the old Fiddle Trick You take a Fiddel in a Pawn

Brokers leave it with hi comes another Felow and pretends its a

Stadivarious Stradivarious a valuable Fiddel 2nd Felow offers to pay

fablous sum pawnbroker says I'll see When 1st felow comes for his

fiddel pawnbroker buys it at fablous sum to sell it to the 2nd felow