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"Then you ought to have better judgment," returned Banneker with such candor and good-humor that the visitor was fairly discomfited. An embarrassing silence embarrassing, that is, to the older man; the younger seemed not to feel it was happily interrupted by the advent of the lily-clad messenger. Hastily retrieving his yellow-back, which he subjected to some furtive and occult manipulations, Mr.
Past the gaunt station she roared, only seven minutes late, giving the imaginative young official a glimpse and flash of the uttermost luxury of travel: rich woods, gleaming metal, elegance of finish, and on the rear of the observation-car a group so lily-clad that Sears-Roebuck at its most glorious was not like unto them.
His nephew, Herbert Cressey, the lily-clad messenger, stopped at the station to shake hands and grin rather vacantly, and adjure Banneker, whom he addressed as "old chap," to be sure and look him up in the East; he'd be glad to see him any time. Banneker believed that he meant it. He promised to do so, though without particular interest.
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