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The American Claimant

CHAPTER XVIII
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I'll slide, down and pull It in.

You follow after me." Sellers, pale and a good deal agitated, opened the door and confronted Tracy.

The old man could not at once get his voice: then he pumped out a scattering and hardly coherent salutation, and followed it with-- "Walk in, walk right in, Mr .-- er--" "Tracy--Howard Tracy." "Tracy--thanks--walk right in, you're expected." Tracy entered, considerably puzzled, and said: "Expected?
I think there must be some mistake." "Oh, I judge not," said Sellers, who--noticing that Hawkins had arrived, gave him a sidewise glance intended to call his close attention to a dramatic effect which he was proposing to produce by his next remark.
Then he said, slowly and impressively--"I am--YOU KNOW WHO." To the astonishment of both conspirators the remark produced no dramatic effect at all; for the new-comer responded with a quite innocent and unembarrassed air-- "No, pardon me.

I don't know who you are.

I only suppose--but no doubt correctly--that you are the gentleman whose title is on the doorplate." "Right, quite right--sit down, pray sit down." The earl was rattled, thrown off his bearings, his head was in a whirl.


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