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THE CONFIDENCE-MAN.

"I see, I see," with heightened interest, " something of moment you wish to confide. Now, what is it, Frank? Love affair?"

"No, not that."

"What, then, my dear Frank? Speak—depend upon me to the last. Out with it."

"Out it shall come, then," said the cosmopolitan "I am in want, urgent want, of money."