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Rh entering the room and calmly helping himself to everything under the pillow and, when the man in the bed woke up, I say, think of Mr. Manling telling him that he had been rapping on the door for half an hour, and was finally forced to come in to stop the fellow from snoring, so he could sleep a bit. Why, they say—he had the fellow so apologetic for his bally snoring that he never suspected till morning that he was robbed at all. And then at Windermere where the American bounder he was robbing a bit stopped him from going through his clothes so that he had to take the garments and all with him. I say, rather rich that, the way Manling left them at the tailor's to be pressed and to be returned in the morning with the note to the bally bounder to really keep his clothes more decent."

The American watched his companion silently, not yet certain of his purpose, yet feeling somewhat more than vaguely that he, himself, was being excused, if not positively commended. 120