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The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

CHAPTER XX
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Call him in and give him a glass of grog.

I was sorry to send him out to-day." "He is coming to make his report," said Mrs.Buckley; "there is his heavy tramp outside the door." The door was opened, and the new comer advanced to where the glare of the candles fell full upon his face.
Had the Gentleman in Black himself advanced out of the darkness at that moment, with his blue bag on his arm and his bundle of documents in his hand, we should not have leapt to our feet and cried out more suddenly than we did then.

For Doctor Mulhaus stood in the middle of the room, looking around him with a bland smile..


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