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On the sixty-fourth lecture Ha," Bones was saying, "to a jolly old brigand

like you, who dashes ing young person who orously, but Bones silenced hiesture

"I say, to a jolly old rascal like you it may seem--what is the word?"

"'Inexplicable,' I suppose, is the word you are after," said Hamilton

"That's the fellow; you took it out of my mouth," said Bones "It

sounds inexplicable that I can be interested in a platonic, fatherly

kind of way in the future of a lovely old typewriter"

"It's not inexplicable at all," said Haracious Heavens!" gasped Bones, horrified "Ha!"

Sunday ether four solemn people, two of ere

men, who felt extreh they had known one another all their lives

Bones, who stood alternately on his various legs, was frankly astounded

that theIt

was an astonishment shared by thousands of men in similar

circumstances A word of admiration for the car froratitude

"It's not a bad old 'bus, dear old--Miss Vera," he said, and tut-tutted