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_Furnishing._ -- _A Cosy Corner._ -- _"Sitting Out. "_ -- _Fresh Discoveries._ -- _Twice a Hero._ -- _Bewilderment and Bathos._
The knowledge that one has a remedy within reach is often as effectual as the remedy itself, if not more so; which may account for the fact that, although a considerable number of weeks had elapsed since Peter Tourmalin had drawn his second cheque on the Anglo-Australian Joint Stock Time Bank Limited, that cheque still remained unpresented.