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check the angry words that instinct told

him were rising1 to his father’s lips. Tnstinct
and the Money Fiend ; for that he was? one

of this little garden-party we may make no
doubt.

i My idea is that I should be your go-
between/ continued the lawyer. 41 have

noticed of late that your father’s manner
has softened- 1 “ ----1
i Look here ! * said the father, pale with

anger, and speaking in a tone which made

Fairbrass tremble. £ If the hard old man
were to send for me 011 hrs death-bed—which
he won’t, for, mark my words, he’ll outlive

us all— 1 wouldn’t go, If he went down on

his knees before me, and----- -'
Here he was interrupted by a noisy,
scared-looking little throng, coming from

the houses and in its midst, her face
flushed and swollen with ciying, the kindly-

looking woman Fairbrass had seen in his
grandfather’s bedchamber a short time ago.

The sad truth was soon told ; and then
Fairbrass saw his father, stung to the very