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uncle, with equal success; but at the end of the third year,
Just when they are ready to repeat the fraud. Hahn Dayton
writes ta tlem'that he is coming to New Yorx to see "his
kids".

Birdie is away in Atlantic City, and Dickie
at his clubs and about the town, when Dayton’s letter reaches
New York, so that he is a neck in the City before they receive

the letter.

John Dayton is a splendid type of Western Canadian,
over six feet tall, with the strong, erhletie figure of the mn
used to being in the saddle a great part of his time, and
the clean tanned skin, the clear keen eyes that eeem.tossee
over great distances, such as the outdoor mn.poeeessee. Hie
fuse is of that kindly, rough type one sees so often in western
Canada, not in feature beautiful, but with a certain rugged
fineness that bespeaks a clean and honest mind. and an abundent
sense of humor. ‘A man who has made hie own way in the world,
and ridden over the hardest obstacles; who daae not disdain to
use his hands as well as his head. Far from being the "antique"

conceived by his weakling nephew, Dayton, forty years old, is

—younger in strength and nind than Dick, aged 26.

Finding his nephew and niece out of town, Dayton takes
half a floor at the Plaza, and proceeds to examine New York
with the appraising and impartial eye of the man who is too
big to in find all the fraud and shoddy pretense and shot

a matter to be sneorcd or laughed at, but regarded as