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`` Go to see him , '' replied the Honourable Hilary . `` I 've been thinking for some time that the advertising in the Ripton Record deserves an additional annual . '' Mr. Bascom , having been despatched on this business , and having voluntarily assumed control of the Empire Bureau of Publication , the chief counsel transacted other necessary legal business with State Senator Billings and other gentlemen who were waiting . At three o'clock word was sent in that Mr. Austen Vane was outside , and wished to speak with his father as soon as the latter was at leisure . Whereupon the Honourable Hilary shooed out the minor clients , leaned back in his chair , and commanded that his son be admitted . `` Judge , '' said Austen , as he closed the door behind him , `` I do n't want to bother you . '' The Honourable Hilary regarded his son for a moment fixedly out of his little eyes .