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Show BHJ Force of Suggestion. BHJ Ho was seated on tho edgo of a rail- BHJ way platform, with an absent-minded HHJ expression in his whisker-covered HHJ face, and wns apparently lost In tho BHJ deep contemplation of nothing. HHk H Two young men who camo from tho LHBHBBx telegraph offlcft in the aVntlon, where HHJJ!5v7 thoyfbad stood at a unll window BHJ p v lookfng at tho man, quickly ap- BHJ proachod him. BHJ "Your houso is on fire and family HHJ In danger," said ono of thorn. "Hero BHJ comes a train that will take you homo. HHJ Got your tlckot and jump aboard as BHJ soon as you can." BHJ Tho man sprang to his foot as a BHJ flush camo to his faco, and tho light HHl of oxcltoment lit up his eyes. Ho BBJ ran across tho platform, entered tho BBJ station and hurried to tho tlckot win- HHJ dow, where tho tlckot agent prosont- BHJ ed himself. BBJ The man opened his mouth, ns BBJ though nbout to speak, then closed It BHJ' again, and, turning from tho window. BBJ returned slowly to tho platform and BBJ resumed his scat. BBJ Ho wns a homeless, friendless and BHJ penniless tramp who had boon sud- BBJ denly, aroused from lethargy. |