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"Then what on earth are you ga on?" she asked, a little piqued

"On me," said Bones in the sah!"

He got up and caently

"If I don't coh to

build a jolly little place, where we can raise cows and horses and

vegetables of all descriptions, dear old typewriter And if I do coh, we'll still have that sa or two"

She laughed, and he raised her s lips to his and kissed the's amusement He

had been to the Hippodrome, and his enjoye that Mr Augustus Tibbetts had as good as

placed ten thousand pounds in his pocket He was a surprisedin the hall, his

unwilling benefactor

"Why, Mr Tibbetts," he said, "this is a great surprise"

"Yes," said Bones, "I suppose it is, old Mr de Vinne" And he coughed

solereat secret

"Coenial than ever "This isa den which the most fastidious of lions would

not have despised "Sit down and have a cigar, old ht?"

"The shares," said Bones soberly "I've been worrying about the

shares"