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 five, the next morning, as before. Whereat Pud chuckled inwardly, and straightway decided to bring Redney McWilliams along to see the fun.

Before going to bed that night Lonely filled a willow bread-basket with wood ashes, well mixed with the softest and mushiest of those potatoes which a picking over of the bakery bin, weeks before, had cast out to unconsidered dissolution. To the handle of this basket, well hidden on his inner window-sill, he tied the piece of dangling string, and went to bed to sleep the deep and happy sleep of the artist well satisfied with his work.

His one regret was that he had not awakened to witness the outcome of his retributive plot. He discovered, though, that neither