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WALKING down Regent Street one morning, Johnny Gray saw a familiar face--a man standing on the kerb selling penny trinkets. The face was oddly familiar, but he had gone on a dozen paces before he could recall where he had seen him before, and turned back. The man knew him; at any rate, his uncouth features twisted in a smile.
"Good morning, my lord," he said. "What about a toy balloon for the baby?"