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`` Nothing , when it sounds so ridiculous as the truth in this case , '' averred Miss Elsham . `` Everybody seems to go crazy up in the tall timbers . Give me the tall buildings for mine after this . '' In high good humor Rufus Craig appeared to Mern that afternoon a little before three o'clock . He sat down , pulled out the slide leaf of Mern 's desk , and produced a check book . `` No need my seeing Exhibit A before settling . Tell me the expense account .