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 the third match of the champean series between Noo York and Philadelphia is goin’ to be played off this afternoon. Wantcr come along?”

“Should n’t wonder,” answered Micky. “Stick your head in here before you start, will you?”

Binks departed down the ladder and Micky lazily opened the paper, but he found little in it to excite his interest since he had heard most of the news through the air the evening before and during the early morning. Sheet after sheet he scanned of murder mysteries, divorce actions, run-overs, and political upheavals until on the fourteenth ppge his eye caught a column entitled, “Social Gotham,” with the sub-heading of “Earl of Toppingham visits America.”

“Humph!” thought Micky. “The old scallywag! What does he want to visit America for?” He ran down the column. Towards the bottom appeared the following:

The Right Hon. Earl of Toppingham, accompanied by his granddaughter the Hon. Evelyn Arabella Farquhar, is stopping for a few days at the Plaza preparatory to making a trip over the Canadian Pacific to Van