Text Appearing Before Image: addicted to hand-shaking, and madesomething of a ceremony of it. Good-by, she said, and ran as fastas she could up the street. He looked in his hand; there were twodull copper pennies. Well, Ill be—said the old gentleman, and he finishedthe sentence. At his home, which was not far fromthe neighborhood in which the Lady Boun-tiful lived, a private secretary was waitingfor some further instructions about themail that had been sent up from his down-town office. He concluded from UncleDanls manner, which was particularlydry, that he had been devising furtherschemes during his afternocn walk. Butwhen the secretarys work was done, andwhen the old gentleman had sat down tohis solitary dinner—he liked it solitary,and would have been the last to look forcommiseration on that ground,—he tookout the two pennies and looked at them Text Appearing After Image: 792 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. long and attentively. Rot! he ex-claimed at length. Some one put her upto it. Or —and he sat up straight andfurious— its those accursed papers !He brought his feeble old fist down onthe table. Thats it,—those blamedpapers, theyve got me again. He flungthe pennies into the open fire. It was thefirst money Uncle Danl had everthrown away. He opened certain of the more enter-prising evening papers with an ill-con-cealed alarm, lest he should read how he,the multimillionaire, had taken penniesfrom a little girl on the street. Butthough at that particular time manycolumns were devoted to him person-ally, from his financial schemes forsqueezing the market, down to hiswell - known eccentricity of filling hispockets with apples furnished with thegratuitous luncheon enjoyed by a cer-tain board of directors of which he waspresident, nothing was said about thelittle girl and the pennies, and UncleDanl again found himself drawing afree breath. A week later a fee
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