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60 THE MAN IN POSSESSION. very idle, but that’s only because | like to look about and see what others are doing, to go to meetings and attend Socialist lectures to discover the mean- ing of strikes and the real wrongs of the working classes. As a rule, they don’t know themselves what they want or how to get it.” _ ‘*And while yau are doing all this, you don't work,” said the girl, looking at him with increasing interest. | ‘‘That is just it, Miss,” he said eagerly. ‘‘And that’s how it happens I’m out now on this’”—he looked apologetic and as if the word he ought to use was not the word he would choose had he any option—‘‘ this little job, Miss,” he concluded. Kate flushed slightly. ‘‘T dare say it is only another side of life to study,” she said. ‘‘ Probably Fletcher can assist you to many more if—if you desire it.” ‘‘If I might make so bold, Miss,” said the strange young man, ‘‘is the—the debt very heavy, because of course it must be very inconvenient to have such a thing happen ; and—there’s ways and means of rais- ing money, Miss, that I might suggest if—if I could speak to your father.” Kate laughed a little bitterly. ‘‘T’m afraid you could suggest no novelty to him in the way of raising money,” she said, a certain hopelessness and dreariness in her voice that cut the sympathetic young bailiff to the heart. ‘‘It's only going from bad to worse, The more one borrows the heavier the debt, and the more hopeless the re- ECOMICMOOOKS.G