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Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger

           "Tojustifymylife,Sir."

           "Dearme,Mr.Malone,thisisveryveryexalted.I’mafraidthedayforthissortofthingisratherpast.Theexpenseofthe‘specialmeesion’businesshardlyjustifiestheresult,and,ofcourse,inanycaseitwouldonlybeanexperiencedmanwithanamethatwouldcommandpublicconfidencewhowouldgetsuchanorder.Thebigblankspacesinthemapareallbeingfilledin,andthere’snoroomforromanceanywhere.Waitabit,though!"headded,withasuddensmileuponhisface."Talkingoftheblankspacesofthemapgivesmeanidea.WhataboutexposingafraudamodernMunchausenandmakinghimrideeculous?Youcouldshowhimupastheliarthatheis!Eh,man,itwouldbefine.Howdoesitappealtoyou?"

           "AnythinganywhereIcarenothing."

           McArdlewasplungedinthoughtforsomeminutes.

           "Iwonderwhetheryoucouldgetonfriendlyoratleastontalkingtermswiththefellow,"hesaid,atlast."Youseemtohaveasortofgeniusforestablishingrelationswithpeopleseempathy,Isuppose,oranimalmagnetism,oryouthfulvitality,orsomething.Iamconsciousofitmyself."

           "Youareverygood,sir."

           "SowhyshouldyounottryyourluckwithProfessorChallenger,ofEnmorePark?"

           IdaresayIlookedalittlestartled.

           "Challenger!"Icried."ProfessorChallenger,thefamouszoologist!Wasn’thethemanwhobroketheskullofBlundell,oftheTelegraph?"

           Thenewseditorsmiledgrimly.

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