Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 7 April 1934 — Page 2

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F CLASSIFIED , ADVERTISEMENTS, BUSINESS CARDS, | NOTICES FOR SALE iU)R SALE — New Living Room ! ' Suites $45 to $l5O. Sprague i ■Furniture Co., phone 199. 80t‘> H*R SALE-2 Chester White male hogs Ready for service. €. D. Houk. Hoagland Ind.. 83-3tx ' FOR SALE —Carload of seed pot a- 1 toes. Inquire at Old Foundryi Bldg.. Elm St., or phone 70 84a3tx ‘ ——————— I „ ■ — FOR SALE 'New 6 H. P. Interna tional gasoline engine with throttle ' type governor. Fred Foster Mon-, roe, lud 84-3 t FOR SALE — Hybrcd seed corn 1 Early, higher yielding strains. ■ 98iu germination. $4 shelled and ; graded. Certified Reids Yellow | -Dent, TsrogvniiiiiaUwi, $ 2 pw Imi. H ruMiller. R. 3, Bluffton. 6 miles west. 1 miles north of Bluffton. FOR SALE—A good stake body to I fit a 114 ton truck. Two good | used 33x6 truck tires. Elberson Service Station. 83a3tx ■ FOR §ALE New and Used Pianos $35 to $225. We sell on terms. : Sprague Furniture Co., phone 199. B(R6 I — 0 WANTED WANTED—To rent, three or four unfurnished rooms or small house. Phone 5142. 83-3 H WANTED TO BUY—Up to $30.00 paid for Indian Head Cents; Half-, Cents. $125.00; Large Copper Cents ' $509.00, etc. Send dime for list. I ROMANO COIN SHOP. A' Spring 1 field. Mass. Itx FOR RENT — FOR RENT —6 room semi modern house at 821 North Third street. See Homer Liby, Bellmont Park. S4-l:g3t . . -o $ ■ . ■ ■ ..I p Test Your Knowledge | — Can you answer seven of these tese Questions? Turn to page Four fo r the answers. 1 Where was the ancient city of I Thebes? 2. What year was the first V. S. i ceiyut* taken? 3. Which state has extensive evergladqs? 4. Where is the Copper River j 5. At the mouth of what river is I the city of Leningrad, Soviet Russia. 6. \\ bat was the name of Brutus's 1 wife? 7. in which State is the city of i The Dalles? 8. Where is the University of Cal-1 jfornia? 9. Name the famous sword of ' King Arthur. 10. Name the capital of She state I of Washington NOTICE- The Colonial Home for invalids, aged paralytics. Special ijtes for confinements. Mrs. H Anspaugt*. South Main St.. Rockford. Ohio. k-84-6tx torn E TO TtM’tVKRs Notice is hereby given that Monday, May 7, 1934 wiH he the last day 1.., pay your Spring- Installment of taxes T*he county treasurer's office will be open from S A. M. to 4 F. M .during the tax paying s?aso.i. All taxes not paid by that time will be- 1 come delinquent and a 3% penalty will be added plus interest at the rate of b r r from date of delinquency. Those who have bought or sold property and wish a division of taxes -are asked to < me in at on e. Call on the Auditor for errors andi any reductions. The Treasurer can | make no corrections. The treasurer will not be renpon-I sible for the penalty of delinquent taxes resulting from the ornmission I of t«’X-pay«'rs to state definitely on WMF property. they desire to pay, I in Whose name it may be found in-wtiat township or corporation it I is situated. Fwrsons owing delinquent taxes shmrtfl pay them at once, the Jaw is snetvthat there is no option left for the ’Treasurer but enforce the colle<TM*ri of delinquent taxes. TSRinty orders will not be paid to ufl-ywmt »wing delinquent taxes. AH person- are warned against them Particulaj attention. If you pay in more than one township mention the fact to the Treasurer that your receipts call for | aM ty l ur r ® estate and personal i ty. «tw*niaking inquiries of the Trearegarding taxes to insure reply do not fail to include return postage? , z • JOHN WRUH I EK Trw surer Adams County Indiana. April Ma.vJJ rw*

thOMXfot* HOUSEKEEPERS TJJ have helped hundreds of Jupilies in this community by leading them enough money to WHUare up all their debts. Our .. twenty-payment plan make's the repayment easy. If you neefl any amount from $lO to S3OO ■We" will advance it to you quickfly. ' All dealings confidential. Call, write or phone. Franklin Security Co. Over chafer Hdw. Co. Phone 237 Decatur, Ind.

MARKETREPORTS DAILY REPORT OF LOCAL AND FOREIGN MARKETS LOCAL MARKET i Decatur, Berne, Craigvill .Hoagland Willshire, Ohio Corrected April 6 No commission and no yardage Veals received Tuesday Wednesday Friday and Saturday I 160 to 210 lbs $3.90 1 210 to 250 lbs $4.00 1250 to 300 lbs $3.90 1309 to 359 lbs. $3.60 140 to 160 lbs $3.10 1130 to 140 lbs _ .... $2.20 1100 to 120 lbs $1.90 j Roughs $2.50 ; Stags .. $1.50 ' Vcalers $6.00 I Spring lambs $9.00 down — CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE May July Sept. Wheat .86% .86% .87% Corn .48% .51% .53% Oats .32% .33% .33% East Buffalo Livestock Hog receipts 300; holdovers 100; strong to 5c over Friday’s average; desirable 160-210 Its. $4.65-4.75; other weights nominal-1 ly firm. Cattle receipts 45; steer and ■ ! yearling supply light during week; I market uneven, around steady; ■ good tc choice offerings $6.507.25; bulk medium and short feds $5.50-6.25; yearling heifers $6; fat j ; cows $2.25-3 50; entter grades. 1 j $1.35-2.50. Calf receipts 50; vealers closed I fully $1 under last week; supply moderate, demand narrow; good ‘ to choice $6.50 down, early bulk ~57.50; common and medium I $3.50-5. Sheep receipts 300; lamus ; strong to 25c higher; good to near : choice shorn lambs $7.50; for week lambs mostly 25c higher; good to choice woolskins $9.50; shorn lambs $7.25-7.75; few 40-60 lb. spring lamns $lO-12. Fort Wayne Livestock Hogs 5c mwer; 250-300 tbs. I I $4.20; 200-250 lbs. $4.15; 180-200 I lbs. $3.95; 160-180 lbs. $3.85; 300- ; 350 lbs. $3.75; 150-160 lbs. $3.35; 140-150 lbs. $3.10; 130-140 lbs. . $2.95; 120-130 lbs. $2.45; 100-120 : lbs. $2; roughs $3; stags $1.75. Calves $6; Lambs $8.50-8.75. LOCAL GRAIN MARKET Corrected April 6 — No. 1 New Wheat, 60 lbs or better 79c I i No. 2 New Wheat 58 lf>s 78c > 1 Old Oats 31c j i New Oats 29c i First Class Yellow Corn 58c Mixed corn 5c less ■ Soy Beans 69c to 90c I COURTHOUSE Real Estate Transfer Jesse D. Da'ley et ux to Alva M Nicl.jja et ux part of inlot 56 in Decatur for SI.OO. Marriage License Paul L. Temple, machinist. Toledo, Ohio, and Charlotte Marie Lang. Toledo. Ohio. Harold Gerken, farmer. Defiance. Ohio, and Ida Norden, Napoleon, Ohio. Merle C. Schuster, steel worker. Toledo. Ohio, and Barbara E. Woodward. stenographer, route 1. Decatur. Estate Cases Estate of John W. Brodbeck. Pe- | tition by administrator to sell real i estate to pay debts filed. Estate of Schuyler C. Clinger, i Petition by administrator to sell I a half interest in oil tools appraised at $337 for $199 as the only cash offer filed, submitted and approvedCase Venued Ralph Wilder vs. Cara Reber and Earl Reber. Partition of real estate. By agreement of parties cause venued to Wells circuit court and 10 days given defendant, Earl Reber, to perfect changes. _____ o The entire stock of the Peoples Supply company, operated by Giles Porter, -was sold at auction Friday, with Roy Johnson in charge of the sale. The building in which the store was located also was sold In a real estate deal closed Friday. the Mary Steele and Charles Brothers properties on Indiana street were traded by the owners. The deal was made by Roy Johnson. ■ ~

See me for Federal Loans and Abstracts of’Title. French Quinn. Schirmeycr Abstract Co. N. A. BIXLEP OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined. Glasses Fitted HOURS: . 8:30 to 11:30 12:30 to 5:00 Saturdays, 8:00 p. m. Telephone 135.

| j AGENT S * Il COLUMN i Three new types of farm record books, all of them simple and easy to keep, two of them prepared by I the Purdue University department of farm management, and the third by the agricultural adjustment administration. are now available to Indiana farmers, most of whom are planning to keep more complete records this year than ever before ‘in view of developments in the

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SYNOPSIS Aboard the S.S. “Navarre," bound, for America. Michael Lanyard, reformed “Lone Wolf" of crookdom, is reunited with his son whom he thought dead. Lanyard is disappointed to learn that the boy. traveling under the name “Maurice Parry,” is a thief; but he hopes his son's interest in Fenno Crozier, lovely daughter of the wealthy Mrs. Fay Crozier, will prove a good influence Maurice steals the famous -Habsburg emeralds from Mrs. Crozier, substituting counterfeits Lanyard re’rieves the gems for Fay. In a bridge game, Lanyard exposes two gangsters, “Jack Knife” Anderson and “English Archie,” for cheating his son. Detective Crane warns Lanyard against their revenge. Soon the emeralds are stolen again and Lanyard is suspected when he refuses to name the first thief. M Pion. French detective, and Captain Pascal are confident of Lanyard's guilt when they find the jewels in the latter’s trunk, only to learn that they are the counterfeits. Fay gallantly says that she gave the zircons (false gems) to Lanyard as souvenirs. Lanyard is puzzled, for he had returned these to Maurice, but he maintains a defiant attitude toward the officers. Just as the captain orders Lanyard confined in his cabin until he reveals the culprit’s name, the purser appears with the genuine emeralds, which were carelessly wrapped and left on his desk with instructions that they be deposited in the safe for Mme. Crozier. To prove her faith in Lanyard. Fay asks him to rewrap and return them to the purser. Embarrassed, the captain apologizes and withdraws with Pion. Despite the evidence. Lanyard cannot conceive of Maurice planting the zircons in his trunk. Fay learns from Fenno that Mau--1 rice is Lanyard's son. Father and son lunch together. CHAPTER XV “Mind telling what Fenno’s mother has been getting at you about?" Maurice asked. “Everything that I wasn't prepared to'tell her about you, natur- , ally. I had hoped to have this talk before we took the ship into our ■ confidence; but you were too busy telling Fenno the first thing—” < “Sorry, sir. She had it out of me t before I knew what she was after.” I “Well, since the mischief’s done— 1 How did you account for your con- 1 spicuously easy circumstances of a 1 young man without visible means of 1 support?” 1 “I had to think quick, sir; and ’ the first thing I thought of was ’ probably as good a lie as any,” the j scamp laughed, “ —that after a life ■ of many vicissitudes, I had struck it rich with a winning ticket in the 1 Calcutta Sweepstakes. As a matter J of fact, there was a chap in London named Parry who pulled in a small fortune at the last drawing.” “And the name Parry; how did ' you explain that?” I “Oh, that! I told her it was the name of the old couple in Antwerp 1 that adopted me.” "Unhappy boy!” "How’s that, sir?” "Too gifted a liar—marked as one pre destined to become prematurely 1 ju*t the usual husband!” "No fear!” Maurice had an ar- 1 rogant laugh. “I’ll never marry.” ' "Good news—for some young 1 woman.” “Oh, I don’t know!” Lanyard was put to it to suppress an indulgent smile when he saw a flush accompany that flash. The boy was as vain ar, a pretty girl. “You aren’t seriously suggesting —are you, Maurice, that you think r t woman ought to consider herself lucky if she woke up some fine morning to find she had married a thief?” “See here, sir!” But on that sharp beginning Maurice with an unmistakable effort rested while his flush deepened, his mouth grew taut, and temper played like summer lightning in the backs of his shadowed eyes “Something?” Lanyard nevertheless blandly prompted. “I wish you wouldn't take that line with me.” The boy’s voice trembled. “It’s meant a lot to me to

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taduatry as a result of the lactlviticß of the A. A. A I The first of the books, the new J Indiana farm account book, supplies I'the moat complete information to k . l analyze the farm bmdnesa. It also ■ provide* complete forms that will- ’ I enable (aimers to prove compliance 1 1 with the wheat aird corn -hog re- ■ I duction program; make accurate • statements on groas sales in con- ) section with the Indiana gross ■ sales tax, and properly analyze, ? summarize and study production ? and marketina problems In order to determine future policies. Copies of

find you—and in the position you've ' carved out for yourself, respected, admired, and so generally liked. I want to like you, too, and admire you, but 1 can’t unless you'll let me respect you. All this is no pood, sir. unless we’re on the level with each other.” “But I am sure you are on the level with me, my boy.” “You may be: I am. 1 don’t pretend to be repentant or wanting to be reformed or anything else that’s stupid. If I followed in your foot-1 steps without knowing it, I guess it I was in my biood. And anyway. I’vc made a go of it; I've done pretty; well at the game, and I'm free to I

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confess I like it. And I don’t admit for a minute I’m any worse than the people that psy me the living the world owes me. I don't rob the' wage-earner—but the rich do, every last one of them, whose playthings I go after. There’s hardly one I’ve robbed who came by his wealth by working for it; and if there ever was one, he was so well fixed he never missed the little I took fzom him.” “Yes, yes. All very interesting to you, no doubt, but to me far too old a story,” Lanyard returned; “ —souvenir de ma jeunesse, I assure you. Everything you say I said in my time, before you were born. What of it? Is there a point?” “Can you doubt it? It’s fairly obvious, I should think: I’m not a hypocrite. I mean to say, I’m on the level with you. Why can’t you be with me?” At this Lanyard sat back and stared in wonder. “We are at cross-nurposes.” he gravely announced. “It is evident that you think I have given you some cause for grievance; and I can honestly lay the same accusation against you. Perhaps we can get at it best if you will assist me at a simple rite.” He thrust back his chair. “It will only take a minute—there is plenty of time before the waiter brings the filet. If you don’t mind—” At the end of a blank instant the boy got up and followed out to the deck. “There couldn’t be a better time.” Lanyard said, halting at the rail and glancing fore and aft at the ranks of empty deck-chairs, “with everybody at luncheon, for this solemn occasion. Did I tel! you it was a burial at sea you were to witness?” He brought up from a pocket a fistful of greenpatones. “Look your last on these gems of ill omen, my son. They have made mischief every time they have come to light since Korff of Geneva made them

thia b<x>k are prlco i at 13c and may be secured from county agents. For farmers who are particularly Interested in keeping records for use in connection witfli the A. A. A. program* and the gross income : sales tax. the new Indiana farm buaI inees re ord has been especially designed by the Purdue ape" ialista, I and may 4>e secured from count) I agents for 10c. The third boojc. designed and distributed by the agricultural adjustment administration for farmers who are interested inly in keeping the records necessary to fill out

to order for Carl, deposed Emperor of Austria and King of Hunga-v. Carl had been obliged tc sell th-.’ originals to find money for his war rhe; t when he was planning that Inst piitteh on Budapest; but there was the legend that no one could wear St. Stephen's Crown who had not in his keeping St. Stephen's seven emeralds; hence, these fakes to deceive his people. Well; all the world knows how that putsch failed and Carl was shipped off to die in i Madiera. . . . How they came into I your hands doesn’t matter; enough that they have threatened this time , I to put a father and his long lost son lat loggerheads. Their tale is told.”

The arm he drew back described I a full sweep and shot a spray of green fire far out over the side. “Now,” he concluded to oddly puzzled eyes, “let us return to our ; luncheon and try to come to an un- i derstanding. I confess I shall be glad- to know what the devil you thought to accomplish by your smuggling of those damned things into my luggage.” But if Maurice offered no more comment than a shrug at the momeut, he followed his father back to their table to put off his taciturnity as soon as their waiter was out of earshot. “You are beyond any argument, the strangest man alive!” he passionately declared. “You sit there with the most sanctimonious air, as ' if you actually imagined that you i had put me in the wrong somehow I and were expecting to hear me apologize!” “You don’t think you ought to?” Lanyard asked in polite surprise. “Rut you can't pretend not to know why I put the zircons in your trunk in place of the emeralds! I wanted you to know who had taken them, of course—that your secret . was safe with me.” “ ‘Emeralds’’ ” Lanyard blankly repeated. “ ‘Secret?’ ” "But you must remember telling I me last night the emeralds had been turned over to the purser. Figure to yourself how I felt when I found . : them in your.trunk! I don’t know • when anything has hurt me so, or upset me more. I was so proud of ■ you—proud to think you were my I father and had had the nerve to do , what you thought was right and i stick to it. I thought that was fine s of you—and it was fine, I still think. . t as long as it lasted. I tell you, I was . regularly heart-sick when 1 found | ► you had lied about giving the emer t elds back to Mme. Crozier —had >een tempted beyond your strength f and, knowing I would never split on t you—” «■ i

prodiiclfon control contracts and prove compliance with A. A. A. con- ; f tracts, can be obtained free of charge from county agents by far- I ! mors who have signed adjustment ,; contracts. This book provides only : tor records on coni mod it les provid- ’ 'ed for in the law creating the sgricultural adjustment administration. Goodvear Manager To Attend Meeting ' O. R. Roth, manager of Goodyear t Service, luc., will leave for Chit cage. Sunday night, to attend a regional sales conference of the ’ Goodyear Tire A- Rubber Co. Mr. Roth will hear Akron offi cials of the Goodyear company out..line sales policies, advertising plans and merchandising projects of the current year. Company r-pi eaentativea from all parts ot th- Indianapolis sales branch will be in attendance. New developments ot the rubber Indus - try during Ute past year wfH-be-re-r vlewod dnring the course ot the, conference. The sessions will be in thej ( . Knickerbocker hotel. Mr. Roth ' plans to arrive back in Decatur on I Tuesday morning The keynote address of the conference will be de-1 livered by R S. Wilson, vice-presi-dent and sales manager for Goodyear, who is oqe ot the most prominent authorities -on tire sales in the rubber industry. Will Establi>h Marketing Code Indianapolis, April 7. — <U.R) Negotiations toward establishment ' j of ini.'k marketing codes in the Fort ! Wayne and Richmond trading areas will be started jeoon. Lieut. Gov. M. I Clifford Townsend, chairman of the 1 slate agricultural board, said today. ■ Assistance of the state adtninis-1 1 tration and the United States de- I partnient of agriculture in obtain j ing an agreement between produc-! ■ ers and distributors was asked by , Ijouis J. Houk, secretary of the j Fort Wayne Milk Producers’ Asso-1 ciation. Townsend said. “ 0 ZT" TAX SWINDLERS UNDER ARREST (CONTINUED FROM PAGF ONE) The other suspects are Theodore 1 1 Fieldman. Edward Woodruff. John I ( Sutherland. W. S. Adams. Jacob ! | Spitzer and Philip Rosenbloom. Adams, it was charged, entered i a contract wftn the yeast company ' i to obtain reductions in the com-. 1 panv's taxes, in exchange for half h of the savings. He and the others j drew up a dummy set of books for : I the concern, it was charged to show l the company's valuation at 8500,000 I* less than the state's These books were taken before | Judge Joseph Burke and a tax re- | CHAPTER XVI “One moment," Lanyard cut in. 1 “I demand that you listen! The > emeralds were never to my knowledge in my trunk. Mine. Crozier , promised last night to take them at ■ once to the purser, but kept them ■ in her stateroom instead. I was , sent for by (he Captain this morning to be accused, in her presence, , of having stolen into her stateroom, ’ chloroformed and robbed her, between half after eleven and noon. It resulted that my luggage was , searched and the zircons found. I was cleared only when the purser showed up with a parcel—” “It was I who left it with him,” , Maurice announced. “I was determined that you should keep your record clear. I took my chance, tossed the box through the window when the purser wasn’t looking, and went to find and tell you the emeralds were where you had said ■ they were-z-in safe hands.” “My dear boy I You did that for my sake!” “Oh, don’t think I was unselfish!” The rogue had a grin there was no resisting. “I was simply taking measures to make sure that nothing else happened to one of my most cherished ideals.” “I shall fret no more about you.” Lanyard laid hold of his knife and fork again. “I know you will with- ' ' out fail come to your senses some day. Permit me to recommend this I excellent filet to your attention before it gets cold.”i. When the filet was finished, however, they attacked the mystery again. “What 1 can’t make out, sir, is how the emeralds grot into your trunk.” “I can make a close guess: the thief who held Mrs. Crozier up—i first making sure I was alone in the writing-room, unable to prove any alibi—picked the lock to make me the present.” “I still don’t see what he hoped to gain—” ‘•Reflect that the shadow of the

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PUBLIC SALE! DECATUR COMMUNITY \KTIO\I IN THE NKW SALE BARX | TUESDAY, April 10th I at «:30 I’. M. I Team 3-year-old steel grey, weight 3200 tbs., sound. good Work Horses. 20 Good Milk Cow* Stock Cattle. Farm Machinery. Early Seed Potatoes. 1 Model T F O ro good cab and stock rack 7xll. equipped with Re* a i ax , e “ ■ Miscellaneous. NOTE: Load ot Shrubbery and COME EARLY, WE WILL START ON TIME. ■ tLAUNT & IT NK. Mjr J i Bov S. Johnson, Auct. Bl I » I -warX

Lone Wolf will eling to my heels, a' tenacious as my very own, till you bury me. My enemies knew 1 would, on that account, be suspected. my luggage be searched, and I—at the least—disgraced.” “Your enemies? You know of some aboard, sir?” “I can think of at least two who 'have no reason to love me—whose Tun I interfered with last night when they were happily plucking your pin-feathers. I am reliably ' informed that they are crooks of the first class in the American underworld.” “Not really? How very interesting!” The young man took the news in a disturbingly cheerful spirit. "That will make it ail the more enjoyable to teach them a sound lesson.” i “You will do nothing of the sort. Be good enough to look to yourself, if you please—you will have all you can do to keep out of jail, the way you are going—and leave me to manage my own feuds.” “Well.” Maurice humored him, “we'll see.” Over the last of the Carbonnieux he pondered this complication. "All the same,” he concluded, "I'm afraid you’ll have to count those two out. It has just come to me that I probably shall know the chap who took liberties with your luggage, next time I lay eyes on him.” “You mean,” Lanyard asked in civil curiosity, “the other chap?” “Tmiehel” Maurice laughed without the least embarrassment, “I haven’t told you everything, have I?” “You have, to the contrary, manifested most affecting faith in my forbearance.” “Why! Fenno Crozier and I had looked all over for you, except of course in the writing-room, before it occurred to me that you might be Still in your cabin.... By the way: what’s your room-steward like?” "Very like a Breton, a burly rascal but brisk.” “With a Brfton accent, naturally? Then I know who the thief was—and he wasn’t either of our card-sharps.” “Not my steward!” “Probably not anybody’s steward, but made up well enough to get by in the part. I could hear somebody moving about in your room, though he didn’t answer my knock; so I knocked again. This time he opened the door,—a smallish beast with mean eyes in a mean white face, — saluted me, muttered, ‘Pardon, m’sieur, one has just finished here’ —in the veritable accent of the Parisian Apache, now I come to think of it—and ducked down the passageway like a startled rabbit. I paid him no particular attention, but went in—thinking you wouldn’t mind if I had a look round to see how well my father did himself—and was just about to go out again when I happened to notice your steamer trunk wasn’t locked. The temptation to look in was too strong, and the Habsburg emeralds were hardly hidden under your dress shirts, with one corner of the shagreen case in plain sight.” * • • Lanyard effected at an early hour an inconspicuous withdrawal from the life of the ship, preferring the solitude of his stateroom to observing from the sidelines the gayeties of the younger generation, which would have amused, him only because his boy figured in them. Through no fault of his own. then, the book which he took to bed with him went unread but by snatches, and lay most of the time open on his knees but ignored. The man was, in short and in all effect, bewitched; he could think of nothing but Maurice as he was and Maurice as he might be: how clever the youngster was. and how adaptable, how easily he had fitted himself into a circle to which nothing could have won his introduction except Fenno Crozier’s mischief-bred interest and her mother’s friendly disposition toward his father —how far he might go, and unquestionably would with such a start, if only it might be feasible to wean him of

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