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well I shouldn’t feel “Milk ae sugar to your own taste,’ |\remarked Warren, pushing the cup <i ‘Now,’ thought Trim, ‘Show aml igoing to play this game? ‘‘I can’t very well refuse to drink this id yet I believe there’s mischief 4 “Tf T couldn’t feed that I was living.’’ **T guess ye have tew pay an awful lot - for vegetables here?’’ Trim responded. Ves, but we get the best and we ge | things in New York th at T don’t believe | coffee ar you can get down in Sag Harbor. " tin it.”? _ *T guess that’s dicly; mister. : He slowly poured milk and sugar into 5 “Now for instance,’’ continued War-|the cup and stirred it up. ren, ‘‘there’s coffee. . Meantime Warren was pouring coffee bP & “1d be willing to bet that the coffee|from the same pot for himself. you have on your table, Mr. Bascum, is} ‘*Won’t you have a cup, my dear?’’ he made up mostly of burnt beans.”’ |asked. 3 Ra Be -. Sho!” | ‘*Not to-night, Henry,’’ the woman | ‘Yessir. They often put burnt beans | answered. , In with coffee so as to cheat the country} ‘I’ve got a kind of a “headache and I people.” | }don’ r nave to raed any.” f peg ee cLat ! J’ll speak to my gro- at’s too bad,’’ said her husban Sie “Well by gum! 3 LP poet I wouldn’t let a headache or any- a. 3 would if I were Feet aseg igive: stand 1 in eri way of my i yea pand I always ait the Bext, ret su gar tice oe same - pitcher ied eee - **You must let me give you a (i ae = a then raising his cup he ith you.’ 0 his lips he sai x « ieee Mr. Warren.’’ | I don’t see why I shouldn’t drink ‘©Youn’ll like it, but there’s one thing|your health in coffee, Mr. Bascum, just : t resides having the highest-priced coffee. ’’ | as freely 3 as I would in wine. a What's that, mister ?’’ wh | Here’ S long life to you.’’ BOY owe got to know how to make it. Trim — puzzled. oo é 2 ‘Now I’d be willing to bet all the} 1ink I am pretty sharp, eet on \ h to-d i flected, ‘Sand if he had put any drug in noney that was bet on the races to-day an | “7 hat there isn't anybody in New York can’ my cofiec ha pander’, hd ink ke better coffee than my wife.’ So far as I can see he 1s arin ing ex- - pound or | ONS Please to hear it.’’ ] lactly the same kind of stuff he poured | =a mas st wait and see.’ out for me, 4 ve wet i thought trim, “and if I’m| ‘‘What he can drink I can drink. not t mistaken all this talk about coffee has} ‘The trick in this * bee ashes be some- = DS cuile meswine. | where else. Bae ee I think I shall have to manage some-| _ “The coffee probably 1 ~' hormle 3 low t 0 go rather Shy on Mrs. Warren’s how I’ve got to chance It. eR i 3 & | Accordingly Trim eee = cup and Hy cat aime drank freely. Mrs. | Warren had no servant. both he and Warren s She peegate the REPOS: herself and| The coffee tasted like the ordinary a ar- : Iticle, neither better nor worse, Trim thought, than could Be had: in soy a es 5; any- = 5 ail ; three sat down and ate freely. ~ Coffee was not brought on until the |Testaurant or private hous K tok Wie te end. wr rt Warren went out to the} ‘“‘Have another BAe a ina eves kite ae ng came back with a steaming Ten. te h she a Bpoe Dune table ef to comply, it oe e ti a oF J a, | ; or : = 1 : ie ig : a the. ——4. - -- 2 oe . P » ; a ; 7 7 4 we 34 4 | <= = » 2 a = o ~» r the tabe| | (OSS a et ~ - i % igi =< ° = Sie ib —- Pome Loge » > = — i f ‘i f : Lua “Se ’ "he s f —— = ‘me ly: A " By, 2 ” 1 - — a a | J is we r- s P : - aa : a! ° , . 2 ; ‘ a * ‘ ~ — «| j a as Re 4 ‘= - = . ’ te = oT. © oe , = +. } , . iv bor = bu oo