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TREATING OF AN UNSUCCESSFUL BROKER AND A DOG.
It was a couple of weeks, or thereabouts, after this episode that Euphemia came down to the gate to meet me on my return from the city.
I noticed a very peculiar expression on her face.

She looked both thoughtful and pleased.

Almost the first words she said to me were these: "A tramp came here to-day." "I am sorry to hear that," I exclaimed.

"That's the worst news I have had yet.