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"Don't pry, don't pry, dear old Ham," he said testily "Great Heavens

and Moses! Can't a fellow take a desirable flat, with all modern

conveniences, in the most fashionable part of the West End, and all

that sort of thing, without exciting the voice of scandal, dear old

thing? I'm surprised at you, really I aood," he said, brightening up "Am Haain, a bargain, dear old officer," said Bones, hurriedly, and

proceeded to the next business

That next business included the rejection of several very pro

offers which had arrived from different directors of companies, and

people Bones was known as a financier People anted other

people to put s invariably left Bones to the last,

because they liked trying the hard things first The inventor and

patentee of the reaping machine that could be worked by the farmer in

his study, by means of push keys, was sure, sooner or later, to meet a

man who scratched his chin and said: "Hard luck, but why don't you try that ot an

office soot more money than he knohat to do with, and your invention is the

very thing he'd finance"

As a rule, it was the very thing that Bones did not finance