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 graphs into the drawer and closed it He looked up at Beauling, whom he had come to regard with great affection.

"Tom," he said, "to-morrow is a bank holiday, and if yon We nothing better to do, come out with me to the country this afternoon for over Sunday."

"Grand!" said Beauling.

"And, Tom, I have some news for you. Wareing and I are going to start a bank in the fall, and, if you see it that way, we are going to make you our junior partner. I thought I'd tell you."

Beauling glanced about the room with dancing eyes.

"Mr. Dunbar," he said, "if you had had any idea of how much what you have said was going to mean to me, you wouldn't have told me in such a small room. You never told me," he said, "whether I was doing my work well or not, never made a sign, and now you tell me this. Don't let me shake hands with you," he said; "I'll hurt you if I do. I believe if I were to shake hands with the Statue of Liberty at this moment, I'd hurt her."