HOUGH, Circuit Judge (after stating the facts as above).
Bankruptcy Act, § 14a (Comp. St. § 9598), provides that a bankrupt within "the next twelve months subsequent" to adjudication may apply for a discharge, and then continues thus:
"If it shall be made to appear to the judge that the bankrupt was unavoidably prevented from filing it [i. e., his petition for discharge] within such time [i. e., said `next twelve months'], it may be filed within...
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