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He inspected ned rapture, and presently sat down by the , stretching his well-shaped legs

"Damme," he said, "I meant to ask what's new, but you chatter on so that I have no chance for a word edgeways Nohat the devil is neith you?"

"Nothing re "Did you coers for hisfor his damned swamps full of briers and mud and woodcock"

"It is just as well," I said "You can not afford more land at present"

"That's true," he ad too much Gad, Carus, the Fifty-fourth took it out of us at that thousand-guinea main! Which reminds me to say that our birds at Flatbush are in prime condition and I've matched theht hi but trouble so far

"Let it pass," he said, noticingWhich rehed, drew a paper fro it, read aloud:

"1 pipe Madeira£90 per pipe--£90

1 pipe Port£46 per pipe--£46

20 gallons Fayal5s per gal--

20 gallons Lisbon5s per gal--

10 gallons Windward I rual"

He yawned and tossed the paper on , "Pay it, Carus If our birds win the main we'll put the Forty-fifth under the table, and I'll pay a few debts"

Standing there he stretched to his full graceful height, yawning once or twice "I'll go bathe, and dress for supper," he said; "that should freshen ht?"

"I'm for cards," I said carelessly

"With Elsin Grey or without Elsin Grey?" he inquired in affected earnestness

"If you had witnessed her treatment of me," I retorted, "you'd never mistake it for friendly interest We'll rake it, if you like There's another frolic at the John Street Theater The Engineers play 'The Conscious Lovers,' and Rosas 'Vain is Beauty's Gaudy Flower'"

But he said he had no ht, and presently left me to Dennis and the mirror

In the mirror I saw a boyish youth of twenty-three, dark-eyed, somewhat lean of feature, and tinted with that olive sreat-grandfather--a face which in repose was a trifle worn, not handsoh not otherwise remarkable It was, I believed, neither an evil nor a sullen brooding face, nor yet a face in which virtue oodness is patent to the world