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Mr. Holiday simply held out his hand , palm up . `` Why -- what -- '' began the clergyman in embarrassment . `` I will give you my check for that sum , '' said Mr. Holiday , `` and something over for your fund . I hope you will dine with me , in my car , at one o'clock . '' He hurried away with the two hundred dollars . It was his intention to sample Miss Hampton 's punch again ; but he turned from this on a sudden impulse and sought out the young man who had been run away with . With this attractive person he talked very earnestly for half an hour , and asked him an infinite number of questions ; just the kind of questions that he had asked the young men who had aspired to the hands of his own daughters .