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HERE followed a week which Wareing of Pennsylvania never forgot. It began with a pepper-pot. This dish, he learned, made the sick strong, and was to be had at its best in only three privileged places—the Yacht Club of Hong-Kong, the island of Barbados, and the Westchester Country Club of Westchester, New York. It continued amid a whirl of young men who received incomes of from twelve hundred to two thousand dollars a year and kept establishments with quantities of servants, played polo on ponies that came up from Australia for no other purpose, never walked except in the house, drank drinks called pegs, which were made of whisky and soda and did not go to their heads for a long time, and performed the various