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Haht a while

"I'll see Bones," he said

He arrived in Town soon after ten, but Bones had been at his office two

hours earlier, for the fever of the new enterprise was upon hih with notes, memoranda, price lists and trade

publications (Bones, in his fine rage of construction, flew to the

technical journals as young authors fly to the Thesaurus) As Halared up

"A chair," said the young man peremptorily "No time to be lost, dear

old artist Tiht is fadin', an' if ant

to put this jolly old country--God bless it!--in the forefront----"

Bones put down his pen and leant back in his chair

"Ham," he said, "I had a bit of a poith your sacred and sainted

sister, bless her jolly old heart That's where the idea arose Are

you on?"

"I' scene Bones shook his

hands and spoke broken English

"There's your perfectly twee little desk, dear old officer," he said,

pointing to ahis own "And there's

only one matter to be settled"

He was obviously uncomfortable, and Hamilton would have reached for his

cheque-book, only he knew his Bones much better than to suppose that