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 "That was the very question which I was most eager to do; I had been inclined to propose it ere now, but I would not venture to do it for fear of offending the stranger; with great joy did I therefore reply, "Yes, that I will, that I wish to know."

"Well then," replied he, "you shall get personally acquainted with that friend of yours."

"Then I do not know him yet personally?" resumed I, "I thought it was you, Sir."

"The stranger shook his head."

"I am only his deputy," was his answer; "and," added he, after a short pause, "only through the third hand."

"I gazed at him with amazement, but he seemed to take no notice of it, and began to make preparations for introducing my friend