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"Oh!" said Haood!" scoffed Bones "Dear old sceptical one, that car"

And so forth

All excesses being their own punishment, two days later Bones renewed

an undesirable acquaintance In the early days of Scheustus Tibbetts had purchased a small weekly newspaper called the

Fla its short career,

the experience was made remarkable by the fact that he beca and immensely self-satisfied man in

pince-nez, who habitually spoke uncharitably of bishops, and never

referred tosensitive people

to shudder

Theof Jelf at

all, so there was probably some purely private feud between the He enty-four years of age, and

he, too, hadLine Naturally

Bones thought of Jelf when he purchased the Flame

From the first Bones had run the Flas He exposed Germans, Swedes, and Turks--which was safe He

exposed a furniture dealer who had made him pay twice for an article

because a receipt was lost, and that cost money He exposed a man who