THE room which Beauling always occupied when he stayed with the Dunbars, with a fine view of Pelham Bay over the hillside wood, Long Island, burnt siena in the distance, and many ships passing up and down the Sound, was not without traces of his frequent occupations. In the attached dressing-room were two pairs of smart boots in trees, his riding-things, several pairs of flannel trousers, tennis shoes, a Mmona, and an assortment of hats which he always liked to have about and which he never wore. A small steamer trunk contained other possessions, and a huge pigskin bag those necessaries which he brought when he came and took when he went Mr. Lilac, a perfect piece of mechanism from the Old World, had just completed the unpacking of this—writing-
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Chapter XIX
