"I have had the time of my life," he said. "It was like a chapter out of the Arabian Nights with a dash of Fenimore Cooper. I feel as if I had lived years since I left England in May. While you have been sitting among your musty papers we have been riding like moss-troopers and seeing men die. Come and dine to-night and hear about our adventures. I can't tell you the full story, for I don't know it, but there is enough to curl your hair."
Then I achieved my first and last score at the expense of Tommy Deloraine.
"No," I said, "you will dine with me instead and I will tell you the full story. All the papers on the subject are over there in my safe."
THE END
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