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`` You can stay and see your old friend through , or you can let us have it out with the lad in camera . '' `` I 'll stay , '' said Hamilton . `` But I do n't think he 'll come . '' `` I do , '' said Bones confidently , and he was justified in his confidence , for at two o'clock to the second Mr. de Vinne appeared . He was bright and cheerful , even genial to Bones , and Bones was almost effusive in his welcome . `` Sit down there in the most comfortable chair , happy old financier , '' he said , `` and open your young heart to old Bones about the Mazeppa Trading Company . '' Mr. de Vinne did not expect so direct an attack , but recovered from his surprise without any apparent effort .