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Notwithstanding a press of business, Jim went and did his duty in thanking the Baron. The latter saw him in his fishing-tackle room, an apartment littered with every appliance that a votary of the rod could require.
"And when is the wedding-day to be, Hayward? " the Baron asked, after Jim had told him that matters were settled.