A Safety Match

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"I say, Nicky," he began deferentially, "have you got Master Bung?" Nicky surveyed her hand for a moment, and then raised a pair of liquid-blue eyes and smiled seraphically.

"No, Stiffy, dear," she replied; "but I'll have Mr Bung and Mrs Bung." Stiffy, resigned as ever, handed over the cards. Suddenly Sebastian Aloysius Vereker, the eldest son of the family (usually addressed as "Ally"), put down his cards and remarked, slowly and without heat:—"Cheating again! My word, Nicky, you are the absolute edge!"

Frontispiece by F. Graham Cootes.

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JACK, IT WAS SPLENDID OF YOU! (p.253)

A SAFETY MATCH

BY

IAN HAY

WITH FRONTISPIECE BY
F. GRAHAM COOTES

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Cambridge Press Cambridge

TO
H. M. S.

CHAPTER XIII. THE COUNTERSTROKE
CHAPTER XIV. INTERVENTION
CHAPTER XV. JIM CARTHEW
CHAPTER XVI. SOME ONE TO CONFIDE IN
CHAPTER XVII. THE LIGHTING OF THE CANDLE
CHAPTER XVIII. ATHANASIUS CONTRA MUNDUM
CHAPTER XIX. LABORARE EST ORARE
CHAPTER XX. BLACK SUNDAY
CHAPTER XXI. VIEILESSE SAID
CHAPTER XXII. HOLD THE FORT
CHAPTER XXIII. THE LAST TO LEAVE
CHAPTER XXIV. ANOTHER ALIAS

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