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At the next meeting there was a slight deviation from the absolutely expected. Bedford and Mabel desired to dispense with the regular order of the day, and moved for permission to bring in a new inventor, "invented by myself," said Mabel, -- "entirely by myself, assisted by Bedford. Nobody that I know of ever heard of him before. He is a new discovery."
"Who is he? " asked Horace, somewhat piqued that there should be any one interesting of whom he had not heard even the name.