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learnt in an annual holiday trip to Madeira Practically there was no

bridge to connect their intellects Sentimentally, life held a common

cause, which they discovered one day, when Mr Fred Pole ing neither to the real, in fact, the

question of Mr de Vinne leasing or renting Mr Pole's handsome

riverside property at Maidenhead for the terht not have met even under these circumstances, but for the

fact that soardener That

matter had been ae of their luncheon, when Mr de Vinnebusinesswhen an interested eavesdropper had

overheard certain iotiations and had e of his discovery

"One of these days," said Mr de Vinne between his teeth, "I'll be even

with that gentleive

him Tibbetts! He'll be sorry he was ever born"

"Tibbetts?" said Mr Fred Pole, sitting bolt upright "Not Bones?"

The other nodded and seemed surprised

"You don't know the dear fellow, do you?" he asked, only he did not use

the expression "dear fellow"

"Know hi breath "I should jolly well

say I did know him And my brother Joe knows him That fellow----"