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"I' "You seem too shrewd to be taken in by any one"

"Huhed reminiscently "I supplied all the fun Darley had one hot summer day when all hands was lyin' round the stores and law-offices tryin' to git cool by fannin' and sprinklin' the sidewalks Did you ever hear tell of the To?"

"I think not," the banker answered

"Well, I have--you bet I have," John said, dryly, "an" it is one thing that makes me afraid sometimes that a country feller railly hain't actually overloaded with brains Take my advice; if anybody ever tells you that a feller by the name o' Tom Collins is lookin' for you an' anxious to see you about soht out that you don't give a dang about Tom Collins La me, what a fool--what a fool I was! A feller workin' at the cotton- compress told ht off, an' that he was up at the wholesale grocery Fool that I was, I hitched rocery I axed one of the storekeepers standin' in front if Tom Collins was anywhars about, and, as I remember now, he slid his hand over his mouth an' sorter turned his face to one side and yelled back in the store: "'Say, boys, is Toht then, Mr Mostyn, if I had had the sense of a three-year-old baby I'd have smelt a mouse, for fully six clerks, drummers, and all the firm hurried to whar I was at an' stood lookin' at me, their eyes dancin' 'He was here, but he's just left,' a clerk said 'He went to the hotel to git his grip He fully put out He's been all over town lookin' for you' Well, as I made a break for the hotel, wonderin' if sorocery stood clean out on the sideatchin' er waiters said Tom was askin' about me an' had just run over to the court-house, whar I'd be shore to find hilad you do so quick, for I had to have it beat into e-hammer," Webb said, dryly "I was so mad I could have chawed nails, but I blamed myself more'n anybody else, for they was just havin' their fun an' meant no harm"