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Eighth , complete prostration in consequence of frequent attempts to render thanks for toasts offered him at banquet in celebration of his impending departure for the East . Ninth , general collapse following bump of coal and forcible ejection from freight train near Albany , New York . -LSB- Illustration -RSB- -LSB- Illustration -RSB- THE duties of young Lord Marque , the new man on the Willett estate at Caranay , left him at leisure only after six o'clock , his day being almost entirely occupied in driving a large lawn mower . Life , for John Marque -- as he now called himself -- had become exquisitely simple ; eating , sleeping , driving a lawn mower -- these three manly sports so entirely occupied the twenty-four hours that he had scarcely time to do much weeding -- and no time at all to sympathise with himself because he was too busy by day and too sleepy at night . Sundays he might have taken off for the purpose of condoling with himself , had it not been for the new telephone operator . She was a recent incumbent at the railroad station -- a tall , clear-skinned , yellow-haired girl of twenty-five who sat at her desk all day saying in a low , prettily modulated voice , `` hello -- hello -- hello -- hello '' to unseen creatures of whom John Marque wotted not .