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"What did you come for, if it's rotten sport?" asked Plank so simply that it took O'Hara a moment to realise he had been snubbed

"I didn't mean to be offensive," he drawled

"I suppose you can't help it," said Plank very gently; "some people can't, you know" And there was another silence, broken by Morti with a é's developing ability to take care of himself "Did you say that Stephen Siward is in Westbury, Billy?"

"No; he's in town," replied Fleetwood "I took his horses up to hunt with He isn't hunting, you know"

"I didn't know Nobody ever sees hiuess his lass and gently shook the ice in it "That, and--the other business--is enough to cut any man up, isn't it?"

"You mean the action of the Lenox Club?" asked Plank seriously

"Yes He's resigned from this club, too, I hear Somebody told me that he has made a clean sweep of all his clubs That's foolish A man may be an ass to join too n fro fro n?" asked O'Hara, with a yawn

"Squadron talk; and you're full of it," retorted Fleetwood--"'I said to the major,' and 'The captain told the chief tru--and those Porto Rico spurs of yours, and the ewe-necked glyptosaurus you block the bridle-path with everyYou're an awful nuisance, Tom, if anybody should ask e of pleasantries between Fleetwood and O'Hara, Plank turned to Morti: "I rather liked Sihen I met him at Shotover," he ventured "I'ed Morti his mineral water with Irish whisky "He can't let it alone; he's like all the Siwards I could have told you that the first time I ever saw him We all told hi if he didn't He's done it, and his clubs have cut him out It's his own funeral … Well, here's to you!"

"Cut who out?" asked Fleetwood, ignoring O'Hara's parting shot concerning the decadence of the Fleetwood stables and their owner

"Stephen Siward I always said that he was sure, sooner or later, to land in the fautter is public property"