"Be hanged if it is n't lonesome without very aged Starr. Did you cut? Ishould like to look at him lounge in now with his pipe, and with feet onthe mantel-piece proceed to expound on the duplex functions of thesoul."

"There--misdeal," exclaimed his vis-a-vis. "Hope there's been no misdealfor very ancient Starr."

"Spades, did you say?" the talk ran on, "never knew Starr wassickly."