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 the devil should my man oil it? Do you think I employ fools? And if you haven't come about the car what in hell have you come about?"

"I've come to ask you to lend me some money," said Be vans.

"Why to me?"

"Because you are the only man I know who has much into whose house I thought I could get," replied the young man, unwaveringly.

"And you got in here under false pretenses, sir," shouted Johns, who, it is to be feared, actually valued himself in the rôle of the raging lion. "What right have you to steal my time any more than my money? Men like me have important matters on our minds, and we have a right to peace and leisure in our own homes. My servants have orders to keep out every one—even my own relations—"

"Oh, one's relations," murmured Bevans, as if they always came first on every one's list of outsiders.

"Yes, sir, my relations. And do you suppose that the first little jackanapes who forces his way in to borrow a five-dollar bill—"

"I want to borrow ten thousand dollars," said Austin.