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The client looked scared, but bewildered too, as if he were unconscious

what he had done

"Spooney!" said the clerk, in a low voice, giving him a stir with his

elbow "Soft Head! Need you say it face to face?"

"Now, I ask you, you blundering booby," said uardian, very sternly,

"once ht here is

prepared to swear?"

Mike looked hard atto learn a lesson

from his face, and slowly replied, "Ayther to character, or to having

been in his coht in question"

"Now, be careful In what station of life is this man?"

Mike looked at his cap, and looked at the floor, and looked at the

ceiling, and looked at the clerk, and even looked atto reply in a nervous uardian blustered out,-"What? You WILL, will you?"

("Spooney!" added the clerk again, with another stir) After soain:-"He is dressed like a 'spectable pieuardian

"I left hi on some doorsteps round the corner"

"Take him past that , and let me see him"

Theindicated was the officeWe all three went to

it, behind the wire blind, and presently saw the client go by in an

accidentaltall individual, in a short