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This possibility had not occurred to Bones, and it is likely it had

uan to take an interest in life, stepped gaily into the office and

as blithely into his secretary's room He even made jokes, and dared

invite her to tea--an invitation which was declined so curtly that

Bones decided that tea was an unnecessary meal, and cut it out

forthwith

All this ti forward, if not

by leaps and bounds, yet by steady progression Perhaps it was the

restraining influence that Ha too pronounced and kept the bounds within bounds, so to speak

It was Scheht the theatrical property of the late

Mr Liggeinstein and re-sold those theatres in forty-eight hours at a

handso, and it was Ha--in this case, to the intense annoyance of Bones,

who had sat up the greater part of one night writing a four-act play in

blank verse, and arriving at the office late, had discovered that his

chance of acting as his own producer had passed for ever

"And I'd written a most wonderful part for you, dear old mademoiselle,"

he said sadly to his secretary "The part where you die in the third

act--well, really, it brought tears to my jolly old eyes"

"I think Captain Hamilton was very wise to accept the offer of the