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TWIN TALES

to this same knight with the cauliflower ear.

"Because we can settle his hash with a larceny action," retorted Gerry. "But our biggest nut to crack, I imagine, will be Uhlan!"

"What can we do about him?" asked Teddie, with the faintest trace of a tremor in her voice.

"There are quite a number of things we can do," coolly explained her solemn-eyed counsellor. "I can have him put out of the Camperdown Club, for one thing, before the week-end. I can demand an impartial appraisement of his physical injuries. I can see Shotwell, this attorney of his, and accept service. I can even get after 'em for blackmail. And there are several other things I can do. But each and every one of them will result in exactly the end we are most anxious to obviate. By that I mean publicity, newspaper talk, the reporters you spoke of as chasing you all over the map. That's the one thing, Teddie, we must not and shall not have!"