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"It is not forwith the ste his eyes modestly, "I say it is not for

me--thank you, Perkins, I will have just as much as will come up to the

brim; thank you, that will do very nicely--to speak boastfully or to

enlarge unduly upon what I regard as a patriotic effort, and one which

every citizen of these islands would in the circumstances have made,

but I certainly plue of the

situation which I showed"

"Hear, hear!" said Bones in the pause that followed, and Mr Parkinson

Chenney beauests retired to the sht honourable," said Bones, "ht honourable gentleman listened, or appeared to listen Then

Mr Parkinson Chenney sreat ht was the guest of a Mr Harold Pyeburt, a City

acquaintance--almost, it seemed, a disinterested City acquaintance

When Bones joined his host, Mr Pyeburt patted him on the back

"My dear Tibbetts," he said in admiration, "you've made a hit with

Chenney What the dickens did you talk about?"

"Oh, coal," said Bones vaguely

He wasn't quite certain what he had talked about, only he knew that in

his reat idea Was Mr Pyeburt a

thought-reader? Possibly he was Or possibly soer so favourably

"Chenney is a man to know," he said "He's one of the ht with hi"

Bones blushed