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Rh "Yes; oh—that is, just a line from two people whose ancestors also left in that little ship we were speaking of a moment ago—the Mayflower, you know—and who have since then been accumulating our American ways of considering—oh, thefts and things."

"Ah!" the Englishman comprehended astoundingly. "Ah—and you will not require a fourth for bridge to-night, Mr. Preston?"

"No; for we won't play bridge to-night, Mr. Dunneston!" the young American laughed happily. "That is, I hope we won't!" 128