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`` Right and regular , '' says I. `` Vee 's wearin ' the ring . '' Say , Mr. Robert 's got a grip on him when he gets real enthusiastic . I could feel it in my fingers for hours after . Then he had to call in Piddie and tell him , and by noon the word has been passed all through the offices . I expect it started modest , but by the time it got to that bunch of young hicks in the bond room they had it that I was going to marry a Newport heiress , resign from the Corrugated , and live abroad . `` In some swell Scotch castle , I suppose ? '' one of 'em asks .