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They dined together, a jubilant Bones and a more jubilant Hamilton, at

a little restaurant in Soho

"My dear old Has happen

This would have been a grand week for one up I'ht in the restaurant "I see that Jorris and

Walters--they're the two oilto aamate But can you believe these people?" he

asked "My dear old thing, the mendacity of these wretched

financiers----"

"Have you ever seen them?" asked Hamilton, to whom the names of Jorris

and Walters were as well known as to any other man who read his daily

newspaper

"Seen them?" said Bones "My dear old fellow, I've ain Two of the jolliest old birds in the world Well, here's

luck!"

At that particular ether in the library of a house in Berkeley Square, the blinds being

lowered and the curtains being drawn, and Mr Walters was saying: "We'll have topublic on Wednesday My dear fellow, I

nearly fainted when I heard that that iether When do you go back to Paris?"

"I think I had better stay here," said Mr Jorris "Did the young man

bleed you?"

"Only for six thousand," said the pleasant Mr Walters "I hope the

young beggar's a bear in oil," he added viciously

But Bones, as we knoas a bull