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 you to—do it alone. I—no reason I shouldn’t stand half.”

Wilkins chuckled inwardly. He was not one to deny to another the carrying into execution of a worthy impulse.

“Suits me,” he said briefly.

And so, with two sponsors—neither fitted by nature or experience for the task—Angus Burke entered upon the second phase of his life—a phase which presented obstacles, difficulties, prospects of bitter unhappiness, heart-burnings, and misery: but which offered compensations, not the least of which was food.