[Shella] Ng on an overcoat while you help yourself." Well, I

[Lonzo Legget]

That I improved upon the bank's

regulations, would you?' "So that cloud rolled over,

and by Jove it was a cloud with a golden lining. Not silver--real
good Australian gold! For old Ewbank hadn't quite appreciated me till
then;
he was a hard nut, a much older man than myself, and I felt pretty
sure he thought me young for the place, and my supposed feat a fluke.
But I never saw a man change his mind more openly. He got out his
best brandy, he made me throw away the cigar I was smoking, and
opened
a fresh box. He was a convivial-looking party, with a red moustache,
and a very humorous face (not unlike Tom Emmett's), and
from that moment I laid myself out to attack him on his convivial
flank. But he wasn't a Rosenthall,
Bunny; he had a treble-seamed, hand-sewn head, and could have drunk

me under the table
ten times over. "'All
right,' I thought,

'you may go to bed sober, but you'll sleep like a timber-yard!' And
I threw half he gave me through the open window, when he wasn't
looking. "But he was a good chap, Ewbank, and don't you imagine he
was at all intemperate. Convivial I called
him, and I only wish he had been something more. He did,
however,

become more and more genial
as the evening advanced, and I had not much difficulty in getting him
to show me round the bank at what was really an unearthly hour for
such a proceeding. It was when
he went to fetch the revolver before turning in.
I kept him out of his bed another twenty minutes, and I knew every
inch of the
business premises before I shook hands with Ewbank

in my room. "You won't guess what I did with myself for the next
hour. I undressed and went to bed. The incessant
strain involved in even the most
deliberate impersonation is the most wearing thing I know; then how
much
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