I am sure to have a lucky ticket in some of these lotteries." [Illustration: MR.

MINORKEY AND THE FAT GENTLEMAN.] Mr.Minorkey only coughed and shook his head despondently, and said that "there was nothing so good as a mortgage with a waiver in it.

Shut down in short order if you don't get your interest, if you've only got a waiver.

I always shut down unless I've got five per cent after maturity.
But I have the waiver in the mortgage anyhow." As the stage drove on, up one grassy slope and down another, there was quite a different sort of a conversation going on in the other end of the coach.

Charlton found many things which suggested subjects about which he and Miss Minorkey could converse, notwithstanding the strange contrast in their way of expressing themselves.