The Veiled Lady

his scarf and the cut of his clothes; more than particular as to their puttings-on and puttings-off-sack-coat and derby for mornings; top hat and fro

s and cigar-cases; the way to balance a cup of afternoon tea on one knee while he toyed with a lettuce sandwich teetering on the other-all the delicate observances so vital to the initiated and so unimportant to the untutored and ignorant.

nto "Muddles" and finally to "Muggles," as being more euphonious and less insulting. Of late among his intimates he had been

gap of a hundred years or more between the Clanworthys and the Maxwells, but a little thing like that never made any difference to Muggles or his immediate connections. Was not the family note-paper emblazoned with the counterfeit presentment of a Stork Rampant caught by the legs and flopping its wings over a flattened fish-basket; and did not Muggles's cigarette-case, cuff-buttons and seal ring bear a similar design? And the wooden ma

"Ivy" in his college days, or about the smart tables at the "Magnolia Club" in his post-graduate life. To them he was still "Mixey," or

illy Salters pitched into him for some act of stupidity-due entirely to his misguided efforts to serve some mutual friend-Muggles would argue,

girl's riding home from the theatre in the omnibus, you goat?" t

uggles, "it was much more com

He had to take the owl train home, and she won't see

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seen it in her face if you'd looked. You always p

end the night and Jerry blabs it all out, and just why he wanted it, and the next morning Muggles, to clinch the deal and help Jerry, slips over to the hayseed and tells him how the Sunnybrook Club are going to buy Jerry's place, and how they wanted the swamp for a hatchery-all true-and that the hayseed oughtn't to wait a moment, but send word by HIM that the deal was closed, because the club-house being near by would make all the

ecame clear to the Goat, that spotless gentleman leaned back in his chair, threw hick hi

ould regret it, and he will. As for myself, I was awfully disappointed. I had planned to run a

t up. It's smothered now under a blanket-about ninety per cent of its value-and the Sunnybrook scheme would have pulled him out with a margin! Now it's deader th

d a lumber mill-and where he ran it himself and everything connected with it from stumpage to scantling. "There is a broad stream that runs into the lake, ... and above the mill there are bass weighing ten pounds, ... and back in the pr

an work it-and bring Bender, and little Billy and Poddy, and three or fou

said he'd go, and so did Billy Salters. Bender thought he could come a day or two later-the earning of the

keep each and every one. Monteith's letter, however, seemed to come at a time when he really needed a more virile and bracing life than was offered by the others. Here was a chance to redeem his reputation. Lumber camps meant big men doing big things-things reeking with danger, such as falling trees, forest fires and log jams. There might also be hair-breadth escape

servant, motioned for a telegraph blank-exertion is tabooed at the Magnoli

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