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St. George complied in some surprise . `` Bennietod 's half sick anyway , '' said Chillingworth , `` he 's thin as water , and if you would care -- '' `` By all means then , '' St. George assented heartily , `` I would care immensely . Bennietod sick is like somebody else healthy . Will you mind getting Amory on the wire when he calls up , and tell him to show up without fail at my place at noon to-day ? And to wait there for me . '' Little Cawthorne , with a pair of shears quite a yard long , was sitting at his desk clipping jokes for the fiction page . He was humming a weary little tune to the effect that `` Billy Enny took a penny but now he had n't many -- Lookie They ! ''