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M of proper names. There they lie inanimate, awaiting the magic
touch--and not very prompt in arising when called, either. The name is
the first thing I forget of a man. It is but just to add that frequently
it is also the last, and this accounts for my possession of a good many
anonymous memories. In de Barral's case, he got put away in my mausoleum
in company with so many names of his own creation that really he had to
throw off a monstrous heap of grisly bones before he stood before me at
the call of the wizard Fyne. The fellow had a pretty fancy in names: the
`Orb' Deposit Bank, the `Sceptre' Mutual Aid Society, the `Thrift and
Independence' Association. Yes, a very pretty taste in names; and
nothing else besides--absolutely nothing--no other merit. Well yes. He
had another name, but that's pure luck--his own name of de Barral which
he did not invent. I don't think that a mere Jones or Brown could have
fished out from the depths of the Incredible such a colossal
manifestation of human folly as that man did. But it may be that I am
under-estimating the alacrity of human folly in rising to the bait. No
doubt I am. The greed of that absurd monster is incalculable,
unfathomable, inconceivable. The career of de Barral demonstrates that
it will rise to a naked hook. He didn't lure it with a fairy-tale. He
hadn't enough imagination for it..." "Was he a foreigner?" I asked.
"It's clearly a French name. I suppose it _was_ his name?" "Oh, he
didn't invent it. He was born to it, in Bethnal Green, as it came out
during the proceedings. He was in the habit of alluding to his Scotch
connections. But every great man has done that. The mother, I believe,
was Scotch, right enough. The father de Barral wh

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