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the boy asked . `` You had better drop in and see me this afternoon , '' was the reply . `` I 'll telephone to Mr. Collier and ask him to take lunch with me and we 'll talk it over then . Suppose you come in about half-past two o'clock , and if he takes kindly to the scheme I 'll have him meet you here . If he has other plans , why , there 's no harm done , and we 'll try and think of something else . '' Thanking his new-found friend heartily , but not quite sure whether he liked this way of shelving him from the Bureau for a season , Colin made his way to the lower story of the building , where he felt that the two young fur seals were old friends . As it happened , a couple of boys about his own age came along and , overhearing their remarks , Colin joined in , realizing that they had all sorts of wrong ideas about the seals .