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When Fraser reached the dining-room for breakfast his immediate

family had finished and departed. He had been up till four

o'clock and his mother had let him sleep as long as he would.

Now, at nine, he was up again and fresh as a daisy after a

morning bath.

He found at the next table two other late breakfasters.

"Mo'ning, Miss Kinney. How are you, Tennessee?" he said amiably.

Both Larry and the young woman admitted good health, the latter

so blushingly that Steve's keen eyes suggested to him that he

might not be the only one with news to tell this morning.

"What's that I hear about Struve and Dunke?" asked Neill at once.