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These questions were properly answered, and as the clerk was noting them he asked, “Might I ask what was the gentleman's good luck?”

“ Certainly; he has fallen heir to a coal mine in Pennsylvania, and we are endeavoring to hunt him up for the executors of the estate.”

“ Ah?” said the clerk, driving away with his pen; “will you be so good as to ask Mr. Mallory to step this way?”

My son stepped up to Keating and remarked aloud, “Mr. Mallory, Mr. Mallory, the clerk would like to see you ;” and then as Keating stepped to his side, remarked as if for his better information, “He knows your name is Patrick Mallory and that we are from Pittsburg, hunting Taylor, so he can come home and enjoy the property the old man left him; but he wants your entire description.”

“Quite so,” said the quick-witted Irishman, dryly.

“You've got me, now,” said Keating, winking familiarly at the clerk, “when we came over we went under; and so many of us was lost that those saved wasn't worth mendina as to age, ye see; but concerning heft, why I'd not fear to say I'd turn an honest scale at a hundred ana sixty.”

The clerk smiled, but concluded not to ask Mr. Mallory from Pittsburg any more questions.

As soon as he had made his notes, however, William told him that he had examined the lists of all