ment are placed together under a head hight sundries.
If it would like you, I will sepa --"

"It is of no consequence," I said, accompanying
the words with a gesture of the most utter indifference;
"give me the grand total, please."

The clerk leaned against the tree to stay himself, and
said:

"Thirty-nine thousand one hundred and fifty mil-
rays!"

The wheelwright fell off his stool, the others grabbed
the table to save themselves, and there was a deep and