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about Still," he mused, "there's a chance"

His friends nodded In their circle there was always "a chance," but

he could not guess that that chance which the student ofupon answered indifferently to the naht he saw his cousin off froed a sleeper for her, and acted the part of dutiful

relative to the life, supplying her with masses of literature to while

away the sleepless hours of the journey

"I feel awfully uncoirl, in a

troubled voice "Mr Tibbetts would say that he could spare me even if

he were up to his eyes in work And I have an unco at

the back ofI should have told

him--and didn't"

"Queer bird, Tibbetts!" said the other curiously "They call hiirl quietly; "only his friends have that

privilege He is one of the best men I have ever , eh?" said Jackson,

and the girl flushed

"He has never been sentimental with me," she said, but did not deceive

the student of htaway to

Devonshire Street Bones was in his study, reading, or pretending to

read, and the last person he expected to see that evening was Mr

Jackson Hyane But the welcoave to that most unwelcome visitor

betrayed neither his distrust nor his frank dislike of the young

well-groo-dress who offered hiood fellowship