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The Town Traveller

CHAPTER XXII
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He will certainly come to-night.

If he doesn't come, do you know what occurs to me?
Why shouldn't we drive into the City and ask whether he has returned ?" "Ask where ?" "He lives at a place--a sort of hotel--which he calls the Bilboes.
Greenacre is eccentric, but thoroughly trustworthy.

He had a gentleman's education." "He lives there, does he ?" exclaimed Gammon.
"Finds it convenient, I suppose.

Yes, we will go and inquire--we certainly will." Gammon's objections were unheeded.

No one could take any harm, said Lord Polperro, from driving in a closed cab to the City and back.


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