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"You've got the ugly facts by heart"--said Gwent slowly--"But there's another and more cheerful outlook--if you choose to consider it Newspaper reading always gives the worst and dirtiest side of everything--it wouldn't be newspaper stuff if it was clean Newspapers reardens--all the rubbish piled together till the s takes place of the whole collection and it makes a sort of fourth-rate iven to sentiment, but I dare say there are still a few folks who love each other in this world,--and it's good to knohen they do My sister"--he paused again, as if so stuck in his throat; "My sister loved her boy,--Jack His death has driven her silly for the time--doctors say she will recover--that it's only 'shock' 'Shock' is answerable for a good edies since the European war"

Seaton ets"--resumed Gwent, placidly--"You want me to come to business--and I will May I sar-case, selecting frorant Havana

"You don't do this sort of thing, or I'd offer you one,"--he said,--"Pity you don't, it soothes the nerves But I know your 'fads'; you are too closely acquainted with the huanism to either smoke or drink Well--every man to his own method! Nohat you wantof a certain substance which you have discovered, to the government of the United States and induce theer Seaton fixed his eyes on Gwent's hard, lantern-jawed face with a fiery intensity--"Reive, holds the mastery of the world! I offer it to the United States--but I would have preferred to offer it to Great Britain, being as I alishman But the dilatory British men of science have snubbedit again Briefly--I offer the United States the power to end wars, and all thought or possibility of war for ever No Treaty of Versailles or any other treaty will ever be necessary The only thing I ask in reward for e to use it That is, of course, should occasion arise For my material needs, which are s as I live, will satisfy my ambition The allowance e to USE my discovery is the one all-ie--never to be broken"