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 using Christian Science than that you were using osteopathy or voodoo practices. What sort of a trial do you think you gave it, anyhow?"

I tipped my chair back again. "It looks to me," I said, "as if you had eliminated Christian Science from my case."

"There wasn't any to eliminate," said Uncle Rob. "And I suppose you've been telling everybody that you've been using it all this time,—and then coughing for them!"

"Pretty near that,—I've been so mad about it for the last few days."

"Well, then, it's up to you to set them straight. You've no more business to let any one keep on thinking that,—any one that you've told,—than as if it were some person that you had told something untrue about; because you were mistaken."

"But what am I to say?"

"Say whatever common sense and your idea of fairness dictate. If you want to square an injury that you have done, you can always find a way to do it."

Of course I hadn't any argument; for he had me dead to rights. "All O. K.," I said. "I'll