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CHAPTER THREE--THRIFT--AND THE CHILD
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It is but just to add that frequently it is also the last, and this accounts for my possession of a good many anonymous memories.

In de Barral's case, he got put away in my mausoleum in company with so many names of his own creation that really he had to throw off a monstrous heap of grisly bones before he stood before me at the call of the wizard Fyne.

The fellow had a pretty fancy in names: the "Orb" Deposit Bank, the "Sceptre" Mutual Aid Society, the "Thrift and Independence" Association.

Yes, a very pretty taste in names; and nothing else besides--absolutely nothing--no other merit.

Well yes.


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