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Springhaven

CHAPTER XXXV
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Only you hask her if you don't believe me and wash her fase same time sir.

Too other peple besides me nose it.

Excoose hon'd sir this trubble from your obejiant servant "FAX AND NO MISSTAKE." The Admiral's healthy face turned blue with rage and contempt, and he stamped with his heel, as if he had the writer under it.

To write a stabbing letter, and to dare to deal the stab, and yet fear to show the hand that deals it, was at that time considered a low thing to do.

Even now there are people who so regard it, though a still better tool for a blackguard--the anonymous post-card--is now superseding it.
All the old man's pleasure, and cheer, and comfort, and joy in having one day at home at last, were dashed and shattered and turned into wretched anxiety by this vile scrawl.


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