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"I don't want to listen"

"A week ago," said Eustace Hignett, "I will ask you to picture e in a New York subway; I got into conversation with a girl with an elephant gun"

Sam revised his private coun

"She was my soul-mate," proceeded Eustace with quiet determination "I didn't know it at the tirave brown eyes, a wonderful personality, and this elephant gun She was bringing the gun away from the don place where she had taken it to be mended"

"Did she shoot you with it?"

"Shoot irl must have been a fool!" said Sam bitterly "The chance of a life-time and she missed it Where are my pyjamas?"

"I haven't seen your pyjaun, and explained itsheart My heart, if you recollect, was aching at the moment--quite unnecessarily if I had only known--because it was only a couple of days since ement to Wilhelmina Bennett had been broken off Well, we parted at Sixty-sixth Street, and, strange as it ain!"

"Tell it again?"

"Good heavens, no! Forget all about her again"

"Nothing," said Eustace Hignett gravely, "could s have called to one another froThere are your pyja, 'You are et her after that? Well, as I was saying, we parted Little did I know that she was sailing on this very boat! But just now she came to me as I writhed on deck"

"Did you writhe?" asked Sam with a flicker of ood!"

"But not for long"

"That's bad!"

"She cael"

"Switch off the light when you've finished"

"She see There are some situations which do not need words She went away and returned with a lass

"I don't knohat it was It had Worcester sauce in it She put it to my lips She made me drink it She said it hat her father always used in Africa for bull-calves with the staggers Well, believe me or believe me notAre you asleep?"