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"Sun in your eyes?" asked Keating, lifting his hat, so as to shield the

other's face

"Yes"

When he looked again, both figures were gone He made up his mind that he

would think of the only other person who could absorb his attention, at

least for a time; very soon he would stand face to face with the six feet

of brawn and intelligence andFisbee

"You are sure he is there?" he asked Tom Martin

"Yes," answered Martin, with no need to inquire whom the editorat the other from under his rusty

hat-brim, "I reckon when you see him, maybe you'll want to put a kind of

codicil to that deed to the 'Herald'"

"How's that, Martin?"

"Why, I guess maybe you'll--well, wait till you see hier, when I remember what I owe him and how

I have used him, and that I have been here nearly three hours without

seeing hih the trees, a

retreative flutter of skirts on the porch, and the thought crossed his

ive some final directions toward

the preparation of the banquet; but when the barouche halted at the gate,