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“C. Q.”; or, In the Wireless House

and America, and Hull and Leith were on the coast of Norway, but it reads a bit old-fashioned now.

T. S. M.—The race was won by Mr. Solly Joel with Bendy Tree; Billy the Verger could only get seventh.

A. W. A.—Was very popular four reigns ago, or about the time when Lady Dorothy Nevill tells us she remembers Lady Cardigan as a girl dancing the Cachuca with great verve."

BARMY.—Because both papers are practically owned by Cadbury, the cocoa man.

OLAF.—Quite good for private circulation, but not to put into print.


How it took him back home! Back to crowded London—back to the green turf—to the smell of stables, to the Crystal Palace, to the cliffs of Dover,—to dear old England. He let the paper fall and his mind turned to the Bennetts and their trouble. How the poor little devil of a girl must feel! Why, it was only a couple of days ago that they had been up in the wireless house and he had explained everything to her. Was she his sister, he wondered! No wonder the fellow looked sick, if he 'd stolen five thousand pounds! But, if he had, why did they travel second cabin? Then came a sound of steps on the roof of the deck-

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