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THE REAL CERTIFICATE.
As the day of the great case approached Blake got more and more restless and irritable.

He had heard of Hugh's going away to look for a witness; but Peggy and Red Mick, in their ignorance, had thought it best to keep all knowledge of the Considine flaw from their lawyer--a mistake that wiser people than they sometimes make.

Blake suspected nothing.

He had more than once seen Mary Grant and Ellen Harriott in Tarrong, but he was again an outcast, relegated to the society of such as Isaacstein.
Well, he would see it out, and would yet make these people glad to crawl to him.