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His baptismal register spoke of him pessimistically an John. Henry, but he had loft that bebind with the other maladies of infancy, and bis friends knew him under the front name of Adrian. His mother

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How be red was to a gront cabout •| mystery oven to himself, his struggle for existenco probably coincided in many material details with the rather dramatic accounts he gave of it to sympathetic acquaintances. All that is definitely known is that he now and then emerged from the struggle to dine" at the Ritz or Carlton, correctly garbed and wiek a sorrectly ritical appetito. On these Occasions he was usually the gucat of Lude Croydon, an amiable worldling, who had three thousand a year sad a faste for introducing impossible people to irreproach

TUL, ANDRENIKA for above': 'TWASAKI,able cookery. Like most men who curabigo three thousand a year with an uncertain Üceon:—AI, ARG 6th Ed., Weston Valen. digestion, Lucas was a Socialist, and he

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argued that you cannot hope to elavate, the masses until you have brought plovera agga into their lives and taught them to appreciated the difference between coope Jacques and Macédoine de traits. His trends pointed out that it was a doubtful kindness to initiate a boy from behind » drapery ocopter into the blessedness of the higher estoring, to which Lucas invariably replied that all kindesstes were doubtful. Which was perhaps true.

It was after one of his Adrian evenings

at a fashionable ten-shop, where the law.

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Intimations.

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"Who was that good-looking boy who as dining with you lastnight?" she asked.

"He coked much too nice to be thrown sway upon you

Susan Mobberley was charming woman, but she was also an sunt.

Who are his people?" she continued, when the pr tega's name (rovised version) had beer given her.

"Eks mother lives at Beth- Lucas checked himself on the threshold GRIPOLY BELTING of what was perhaps a social indiscretion.

Where is it? It sounds like Peth? METALLIO FILAMENT and other.

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Oh, ro. Her work lies among the pocr;"

This uns à aide-slip into trath. The mo-" ther of Adrian was employed in a Lundry. "Isco," said Mrs Hebberley, "mission "work of acme sort. And meanwhile the

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obriately my duty to see that he doesn't come to harm. Bring him to call on me."

My dear Aunt Susan," expostulated Lucas, "I really know very little abou him. He may not be at all nice, you know on further acquaintance."

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"It's the maddest thing I ever heard

BUSINESS COMMENCED,f," said Lucas angrily. WEDNESDAY, 18TH JULY. HONGKONG, 77, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

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in our family. If you haven't noticed it yourself all your friends mast hire.

"One ja so dreadfully under everybody's eyes at Homburg. At least you might give him a preliminary trial at Etretat.

"And be surrounded by Americans trying to talk French? No, thank you, I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English. To-matrow

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Adrian wan duly carried abroad under the Mobberley wing; but as a reluctant concession to sinity Homburg and other

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shiny, Mild Ulimate: good pro- -Sta for smbitions man with small capital jus bevises, professions, fruitgrowing, poultry, farming, mannfastaringy landstuber, Riven a wide berth, and the Mobberley mining, relleods, navigation, faterion,

incuruatantly falinoable roncaris were

establishment planted itself down in the

best hotel at Dobledqri, an Alpine towniet somewhere at the back of the Engadine. It was the uaual kind of resort, with the unul type of visits that one finde

over the greater part of Switzerland during the summer sent, but to Adrian it was all vous. The mountain air, the certainly of regular and aidant meals, and in partitalar the social atmos 772 phero, affected him much as the indiscrim- inating favour of forcing house might affect a weed that had strayed within its He had been brought up in a world where breakages were rirded o crimes and explated'se such it some thing cow and altogether exbilanting to the sight find that you were considered zatbor amus ing if you smashed things, mamer and at the recoguised hours, Suun ebberley bad expressed the intem- EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE Etios of showing Adrian a bit of the world; the particular bit of the world prosentad by Deblodort began to be shown good. ani bor Adrian.

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