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boot-shop--even a collection of boot-shops--and he was conscious of the

horrible fact that Bones knew nothing about boots

He groaned He was always groaning, he thought, and seldo ht The Weekly

Sunspot, which was "A Satirical Weekly Review of Human Affairs" The

possibilities of that purchase had one ho article

which was a violent attack on the Govern to discover that the paper had been resold at

a thousand pounds profit to the owners of a rival journal which

described itself as "A Weekly Syht and Fancy"

But Bootsand £105,000 !

This was serious Yet there was no occasion for groaning or doubt or

apprehension; for, even whilst Ha his head violently at Mr de Vinne, of the Phit-Phine Shoe

Syndicate, who had offered him £15,000 profit on the turn-over And at

the identicalhis ticket for London,

Bones was sole hands with the Secretary of the Phit-Phine

Shoe Syndicate (Mr de Vinne having violently, even apoplectically,

refused toin the other a cheque

which represented a profit of £17,500 It was one of Bones's big

deals, and reduced Hamilton to a condition of blind confidence in his