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Then, after a heart-breaking silence Bones strode out, and Mr Staines

did a rapid sprint, so that hein an attitude

of indifference and thought near the desk The lips of Bones were

tight and compressed He opened the drawer, pulled out the transfers,

tossed the it down after the document

He picked up his cheque and tore it into twenty pieces

"That's all," said Bones, and Mr Staines beat a treone, Bones returned to the girl as sitting at

her table before her typewriter It was observable that her lips were

co Miss Whitland," said Bones, and his voice was hoarser than ever,

"never, never in ive irl a little wearily, "haven't I

told you that I have forgiven you? And I aht in your mind, and that you just acted ireement and a crushed spirit

"The fact remains, dear old miss," he said brokenly, "that I did kiss

you in that beastly old private vault I don't knohatto preserve it for all tihty old foot should tread upon that hallowed ground You

think that's nonsense!"

"Mr Tibbetts"

"Nonsense, I say, romantic and all that sort of rot" Bones threw out

his arree with you But, believe ret that you would not let me buy it

and turn it over to the jolly old Public Trustee or one of those

johnnies You do forgive hed, and they laughed

together