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Sevenoaks

CHAPTER XIV
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They have keen badly led, inflamed over false information, and they have disgraced themselves.
"This closed the interview, and then Col.

Belcher politely showed the 'Tattler' reporter over his palatial abode.

'Taken for all in all,' he does not expect 'to look upon its like again.' "None see it but to love it, None name it but to praise.
"It was 'linked sweetness long drawn out,' and must have cost the gallant Colonel a pile of stamps.

Declining an invitation to visit the stables,--for our new millionaire is a lover of horse-flesh, as well as the narcotic weed--and leaving that gentleman to 'witch the world with wondrous horsemanship,' the 'Tattler' reporter withdrew, 'pierced through with Envy's venomed darts,' and satisfied that his courtly entertainer had been 'more sinned against than sinning.'" Col.

Belcher read the report with genuine pleasure, and then, turning over the leaf, read upon the editorial page the following: "COL.


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