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Mr Harold de Vinne was a large ar

He was big and broad-shouldered, and automatically jovial Between the

hours of 6 pood fellow,"

which reputation he did his best to destroy between 10 am and 4 pm

He was one of four stout felloho controlled co

stability--the kind of companies that have such items in their balance

sheets as "Sundry Debtors, £107,402 12s 7d" People feel, on

reading such airy lines, that the conitude that the sundry debtors are only included as a careless

afterthought

Mr de Vinne was so rich that he looked upon any al possession; and when Mr Augustus Tibbetts, on an

occasion, stepped in and robbed him of £17,500, Mr de Vinne's fa; literally, he had

no family, and swore by certain patent medicines), and straas spread

before the temple of his mind

A certain Captain Hamilton, late of HM Houssas, but now a partner in

the firm of Tibbetts & Hamilton, Ltd, after a short, sharp bout of

et the whizzy

noises out of his head To hi a special courier