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The Ivory Trail

CHAPTER FIVE
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We had left the door locked, but the lock was a common one; probably the keys of other doors fitted it, and there was not one thing in the room placed exactly where we had left it.

Everything was more or less in place, but nothing quite.
I returned empty-handed down-stairs, locking the bedroom door behind me.
"Listen, you chaps!" I said.

"While we waited for that woman she and her maid went through our things again!" "How d'you know it was she ?" asked Fred.
"No mistaking the scent she uses.

Where's our money ?" "Here in my pocket." "Good.

The map's gone, though!" Will showed big teeth in the first really happy smile for several days.
"Good enough!" he said.


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