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`` Even if you should see me hanged the next day . '' `` That 's a fine sentiment to sleep on , so we 'll go to bed . However , remind yourself that a little good sense when you resume business ... by the way , it 's morning ... no super-sensitiveness , no grieving , for you were straight all through ... go right on as if nothing had happened ... and in fact nothing has happened yet ... I can see that you understand . '' They went to bed , and slept comfortably until noon . After breakfast Louis looked passably well , yet miserable enough to make explanations necessary for his alarmed parents . Arthur undertook the disagreeable office , which seemed to him delightful by comparison with that other story of a runaway son _ en route _ in fancied disgrace for India . All 's well that ends well .