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 hade! Oh, how that is tarrible! An' suppose"—she whispered it horridly" that Mr. B. F. Pikkerton aha, ha, ha!—arrive?"

The nakodo was not sure how much of this was meant seriously. They were extremely unusual humors to him. But she had consented to the meeting, and he promptly took her at her word.

"When, then, will it please you to have me bring Yamadori?"

"When you lig—nize liddle ole friend."

The nakodo fixed that day a week.

As he was going, Cho-Cho-San laughingly asked:

"Sa-ay! How often he been marry? "

"But twice," the nakodo replied virtuously.

"An' both times divorce?"

He admitted that this was the case.

"An' both times jus' on visit from United States America—jus' liddle visit?—so long?" She spread her hands.

Under her laughing gaze it seemed best to admit it.

"Oh! he—he jus' marry 'nother for fun—whenever he thing 'bout it. Then he forgit it when he don' thing 'bout it, and marry 'nother. Say so!"

He heard her laugh again as he left the