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fa sense of the decency of reserve

in such aFisbee's shame had made the old man

unable not to suppress when he told Parker his story; the wraith of a

torrid palate had pursued him from his youth, and the days of drink and

despair from which Harkless had saved him were not the first in his life

Meredith wondered as much as did Harkless where Fisbee had picked up the

journalistic "young relative" who signed his extre hand It was evident that the old rateful to his patron, but it did not occur to Meredith that Fisbee's

daughter

that she could give all her young strength to work for the ood to her father

There caust when Meredith took the convalescent from the

hospital in a victoria, and installed hi fraht

in his eyes as they drove slowly through the pretty streets of Rouen The

bandages and splints and drugs and swathings were all gone now, and his

sole task was to gather strength The thin face was sallow no longer; it

was the color of evening shadows; indeed he lay aaunt shadow of the late afternoon, looking old

and gray and weary They rolled along abusing each other, John so his friend with violence