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"What's doing, Gav?" he said "Who's the letter from?"

"Oh, business--business" said Gavan Blake

"What's doing with you?"

"Doing! By Gad, I'iveto the Court at Ballarook?"

"Yes I've got a couple of cases there And I've just got a letter

fro"

"Ho! My oath! Stop at Kuryong, eh? That's cause you saved the

heiress? Well, go in and win You won't knohen you irl, ain't she?

Has she any sense?"

"Much as you have," growled Blake

"Oh, don't get nasty Only I thought you were a bit shook on the

governess there--what about that darnce at the Show ball, eh? I

say, you couldn't lend us a tenner till Saturday?"

"No, I could not--" And this was the literal truth, for Gavan Blake

had run hi on credit--not

an enviable position at any time, and one doubly insupportable to

a hts went back to the

girl he had saved, and he pondered how different things ht, perhaps, still be