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The king he smiled eager, and shoved out his flapper, and says:

"Is it my poor brother's dear good friend and physician? I --

"Keep your hands off of me!" says the doctor. "You talk like an English-

man don't you? It's the worse imitation I ever heard. You Peter Wilks's

brother. You're a fraud, that's what you are!"

Well, how they all took on! They crowded around the doctor, and tried to

quiet him down, and tried to explain to him,

and tell him how Harvey'd showed in forty ssssssssss

ways that he was Harvey, and knowed every-

body by name, and the names of the very ssssssssss

dogs, and begged and begged him not to hurt

Harvey's feelings and the poor girls' feelings,

and all that; but it warn't no use, he ssssssssss

stormed right along, and said any man that

pretended to be an Englishman and couldn't

imitate the lingo no better than what he did,

was a fraud and a liar. The poor girls was

hanging to the king and crying; and all of a

sudden the doctor ups and turns on them. ssssssssss

He says: ssssssssss

"I was your father's friend, and I'm your

friend; and I warn you as a friend, and an

honest one, that wants to protect you and ssssssssss

keep you out of harm and trouble, to turn ssssssssss

your backs on that scoundrel, and have ssssssssss

nothing to do with him, the ignorant tramp,

with his idiotic Greek and Hebrew as he calls it. He is the thinnest kind of an

impostor -- has come here with a lot of empty names and facts which he has picked

up somewheres, and you take them for proofs, and are helped to fool yourselves

by these foolish friends here, who ought to know better. Mary Jane Wilks, you

know me for your friend, and for your unselfish friend, too. Now listen to me;

turn this pitiful rascal out -- I leg you to do it. Will you?"

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