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"Did you notice him call me with a pair of tens? And me queen-high!" Mellin drained a deep glass in honor of himself. "On my soul, Chan' Pedlow, I think you're the bes' fellow in the whole world," he said gratefully. "Only trouble with you you don't want to play high enough."

He distributed some of the small towers of ivory counters and made a memorandum in a notebook. "There's four hundred apiece." "That all?" inquired Mellin, whereupon Mr. Pedlow uproariously repeated Madame de Vaurigard's alleged tribute.

So Mellin followed, to make his bow before a thin, dark, charmingly pretty young woman, who smiled up at him from her deck-chair through an enhancing mystery of veils; and presently he found himself sitting beside her.

Did she think that puling milksop had as much as a shadow of the daring, the devilry, the carelessness of consequences which lay within Robert Russ Mellin? "Consequences?" What were they? There were no such things! She would not look at him well, he would make her! Thenceforward he raised every bet by another to the extent of the limit agreed upon. Mr. Cooley was thoroughly happy.

"Mellin, you set there," he continued, pushing the young man into a seat opposite Cooley. "We'll give both you young fellers a mascot." He turned to Lady Mount-Rhyswicke, who had gone to the settee by the fire. "Madge, you come and set by Mellin," he commanded jovially. "Maybe he'll forget you ain't a widow again." "I don't believe I care much about bein' anybody's mascot to-night," she answered.

In the evening we baked cakes of our mealy flour, adding Mellin's Food, mixed herbs, vanilla, and fat, and fried it in a fatty dish. It was very good, and was followed by meat fried in mealy crumbs, and later on, some mealy porridge and Mellin mixed. We tried Mellin alone first, but it seemed thin. We read the directions carefully, and used the proportions laid down for infants over three months.

Mellin leaned back in his chair. "You call that high?" he asked, with a sniff of contempt. "Why not double it?" The fat man hammered the table with his fist delightedly. "'He's game, she says. 'He's the gamest little Indian ever come down the big road! she says. Was she right? What? Maybe she wasn't! We'll double it before very long, my boy; this'll do to start on. There."

"There's plenty comin', ain't there? Four more, Tommy, and bring cigars. Don't take a cent from none of these Indians. Gentlemen, your money ain't good here. I own this bar, and this is my night." Mellin had begun to feel at ease, and after a time as they continued to sit he realized that his repugnance to Mr.

Mellin, the Honorable Chandler Pedlow," he said; nor was the shock to the first-named gentleman lessened by young Cooley's adding, "Best feller in the world!" Mr.

"Yes, sir," replied the man, "many, but also, many like me." "Then is your complaint against the real estate sharks or the government?" persisted the Secretary. "Against both!" cried the man. "Why did that Freet give Mellin and the other big fellow first choice in everything? Why must I pay for what I can't get?"

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