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best ood for us, and so

we've oing to

find hi to have a hand on the

rope that lifts the o to Rouen to put it

there! After that I'll answer for my fault, not before!"

He threw hione Soon the room was emptied, as

the patrons of the bar returned to the search, and only Mr Wilkerson and

the landlord re the professional office, so to speak,

of both

Wilkerson had a chair in a corner, where he sat chanting a funerala parenthetical hic to punctuate the

dirge in place of the drum Whenever a batch of newcomers entered, he rose

to drink with the off his liquor with

a richtears after every s, he wouldtour of the roo to look

under each chair inquiringly and ejaculate: "Why, where kin he be!" Then,

shaking his head, he would observe sadly: "Fine youngit him"