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The American Claimant

CHAPTER IX
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There will be three funerals." Lady Rossmore looked up surprised, and said: "How is that going to make it easier for him?
It's a total mistake, to my mind.

He ought to be buried all at once; I'm sure of it." "I should think so, too," said Hawkins.
"And certainly I should," said the daughter.
"You are all wrong," said the earl.

"You will see it yourselves, if you think.

Only one of these baskets has got him in it." "Very well, then," said Lady Rossmore, "the thing is perfectly simple-- bury that one." "Certainly," said Lady Gwendolen.
"But it is not simple," said the earl, "because we do not know which basket he is in.

We know he is in one of them, but that is all we do know.


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