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"Youfor you that was not very

well done before"

"Yes It seems to me that there was a time when I had an immortal

soul That was before the Fra

experience"

Stanistreet assented He knew the horrible story, of a liest facts in Tyson's character

He arped from his youth, the bitter, premature manhood, so soon

corrupt

"That wost them they

didn't leave much of my immortal soul And you hear men talk of their

'first love' Good God!"

Stanistreet shrugged his shoulders He had not met these men But there

could be no doubt that if any of Tyson's loves could be called his first,

he would have talked freely enough about it No subject was too sacred

or too vile for his unbridled tongue He continued to talk

"After all, at my worst, I never did as much harm to any woman as that

Frae; but that was

Nature's justice, not , I obeyed the law of the

cosmos And for the life of me I don't see why I should bother about it"

If it had not been for Mrs Nevill Tyson, Stanistreet ht have been