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And it must be either one of two things; either he's in love——"

"Don't be a fool!" snapped Miles.

"Well, I don't suppose it's that, for you haven't been near the Ruggleses' place for two days, so far as I'm aware, and unless you've been doing the Narcissus act and falling in love with your own reflection——"


"Oh cut it out!" said Miles, wearily.

"Very well, it isn't that, then. So it must be your liver. If you'll just do as I told you and take a few of those pills, you'll be all right. I dare say it's living so much down there in the Southwest. That's a bad place for livers, I've heard. I used to know a chap who was in the cavalry down at Fort——"

But his auditor had flown.

Presently Hunter followed him out