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The Baron lit a cigar, gazed thoughtfully and with evident satisfaction at the daily deepening shade of tan upon his knees, and then answered slowly "Vell, Bonker, she is not so bad." "Ah," commented Bunker. "Bot, Bonker, it is not vat I do think of her. Ach, no! It is not for mein own pleasure. Ach, nein! How shall I do my duty to Tollyvoddle? Zat is vat I ask myself."

Ze vild cat is growling! Hech Dummeldirroch! Behold Tollyvoddle, Ze Lord of ze Mountains!" Hardly had the reverberations of the chieftain's voice died away, when the Count, uttering a series of presumably Gaelic cries, advanced with the most dramatic air, and threw his broad-sword upon the ground.

Also, he touched upon her father's colossal fortune, and the genuine Tulliwuddle's necessities. The Baron listened with growing interest. "Vell," he said, "I soppose I most make a goot impression for ze sake of Tollyvoddle. For instance, ven we drive up " "Drive? my dear Baron, we shall march! Leave it to me; I have a very pretty design shaping in my head."

"I don't know whether the Baron would be interested " "Immensely, my goot Tollyvoddle! Supremely! hugely! I could be interested to-night in a museum!" "The Baron's past life makes him a peculiarly catholic judge of indiscretions," said Essington. Thus reassured, Tulliwuddle began "You know I've an aunt who takes an interest in me wants me to collar an heiress and that sort of thing.

Now it appears to me that our modest friend here somewhat underrates his own powers of fascination." "Ach, Tollyvoddle, you do indeed," interjected the Baron.

Ze man stared at me, and ze voman—I vill not say ladysays to him zo zat I can hear, ‘Zat awful German!’ Ze man says, ‘Zo it is,’ and laughed. ‘I haf ze pleasure of meeting you last night at ze Lady Tollyvoddle,’ I said. ‘I remember,’ he said; ‘but I haf no vish to meet you again.’ I take out my card to gif him, but he only said, ‘Go avay, or I vill call ze police!’ ‘Ze police!

Though Bunker spoke with an air of desiring merely to assist his friend, the speech seemed to arouse some furious thinking in the Baron's mind. For some moments he made no reply, and then at last, in a troubled voice, he said "I have already a leetle gommitted Tollyvoddle to Eva. Ach, bot not moch! Still it vas a leetle. Miss Maddison vat is she like?"

"I gom mit so moch pleasure zat I cannot eggspress! Tollyvoddle, be no longer afraid. I have helped to write a book on ze noble families of Germany zat is to say, I have contributed my portrait and some anecdote. Our dear friend shall make no mistakes!" By this guarantee Lord Tulliwuddle's last doubts were completely set at rest.

"A girl might get carried away by you," said the original peer a trifle doubtfully. "The Baron is the most scrupulous of men. He will be by my side almost continually. Baron, you will act as my judge, my censor, and my chaperon?" "Tollyvoddle, I swear to you zat I shall use an eye like ze eagle. He shall be so careful ach, I shall see to it!

"You might have said next veek." "By next week Miss Maddison may be snapped up by some one else." "Zen vould Tollyvoddle be more lucky! I have nearly got for him ze most charming girl, mit as moch money as he vants. Ach, you do interfere! You should gonsider ze happiness of Tollyvoddle." "That is the only consideration that affects yourself, Baron?" "Of course! I cannot marry more zan vonce."