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 chain." But he was looking narrowly at the big monogram as he said it. "It's reely a wonderful article, 'Ow they do git 'em up, to be sure! Cost a lot of money, too, I'll be bound. Might you be thinking of sellin' it?"

"Yus,o' course," replied Josh. "That's wot I brought it for."

"Ah, it 's a lovely watch, Mr. Perrott—a lov-erly watch; an' the chain matches it. But you mustn't be too 'ard on me. Shall we say four pounds for the little lot?"

It more than doubled Josh's wildest hopes, but he wanted all he could get. "Five," he said, doggedly. Weech gazed at him with tender rebuke.

"Five pound 's a awful lot o' money, Mr. Perrott," he said. "You're too 'ard on me, reely. I 'ardly know 'ow I can scrape it up. But it's a beautiful little lot, an' I won't 'aggle. But I ain't got all that money in the 'ouse now. I never