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intolerable, but checked himself on the' verge of the proposition that a
girl ought not to expect a fellow to hand down boxes for her when he was
getting the 'swap' from a customer. It was Jessie's preoccupation
with her own perplexities, no doubt, that delayed the unveiling of Mr.
Hoopdriver all through Saturday and Sunday. Once or twice, however,
there were incidents that put him about terribly--even questions that
savoured of suspicion.
On Sunday night, for no conceivable reason, an unwonted wakefulness
came upon him. Unaccountably he realised he was a contemptible liar,
All through the small hours of Monday he reviewed the tale of his
falsehoods, and when he tried to turn his mind from that, the financial
problem suddenly rose upon him. He heard two o'clock strike, and three.
It is odd how unhappy some of us are at times, when we are at our
happiest.
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