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Indeed, in response to a law of nature, he was already inclined to react from his unwonted depression into reckless hilarity I forces, and he was accustoive himself up to theht to iine himself consistent, so that he could maintain his self-approval

"I will hide hter," he muttered; "the world cannot know that it is hollow, and but a ood cold lunch and a cup of coffee--which he could have obtained at once at the hotel near the depot--would not answer for this victim of despair Some extra delicacies, which required time for preparation, were ordered In the meantime he went to the bar for an "appetizer," as he terers present, and, of course, asked hie complied in a ive the impression that his acceptance of the courtesy was a compliment to Haldane Much practice had made him perfect in this art, and the nuratis in the course of a year by being always on hand and by ht superiority, combined with an appearance of bonhomie and readiness to be social, would have lasses clinked together he said, with the off-handed courtesy indigenous to bar-rooms, where acquaintances are made with so little trouble and ceremony: "Mr Haldane, my friends from New York, Mr Van Wink and Mr Ketche conveniently near, ere dressed faultlessly in the style of the day There was nothing in their appearance to indicate that they did not reside on Fifth Avenue, and, indeed, they may have had rooms on that fashionable street

Messrs Van Wink and Ketchem had also a certain air of superiority, and they shook hands with Haldane in a way that inize in you an extraordinarily fine speci man was not indifferent to their unspoken flattery He at once invited the bartender their preferences alasses clinked together

With fine and thoughtful courtesy they had chosen the same mixture that he had ordered for himself, and surely some of the milk of human kindness must have been infused in the punches which they irow very friendly toward Haldane Perhaps taking a drink with a ard for hi of bread creates within the breasts of Bedouins, who, as travellers assert, will protect with their lives a stranger that has sat at their board; but rob and murder, as a matter of course, all who have not enjoyed that distinction Whatever may have been the cause, the stylish men from the city were evidently pleased with Haldane, and they delicately suggested that he was such an unusually clever fellow that they illing to know him better