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"Sit down, Mr--er----" said Bones

There was a cold, cold feeling at his heart, a sense of co the real shocks and terrors of life was a

different young man from the Bones who fussed and fumed over its

trifles

"I suppose you wonder why I have coarette from the silver box on the table "I rather

wonder why I have the nerve to see you myself I've come on a very

delicate matter"

There was a silence

"Indeed?" said Bones a little huskily, and he knew instinctively what

that delicate uerite," said Mr Hyane

Bones inclined his head

"You see, we have been great pals all our lives," went on Jackson

Hyane, pulling steadily at the cigarette--"in fact, sweethearts"

His keen eyes never left the other's face, and he read all he wanted to

know

"I auerite," he went on, "and I think I auerite is tremendously fond

of me I haven't been especially fortunate, and I have never had the

uerite the kind of life which

a girl so delicately nurtured should have"

"Very admirable," said Bones, and his voice caer