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Colonel Thorndyke’s Secret

CHAPTER XI
10/23

You are quite uncertain about your future movements, but you are thinking of enlisting." "Very well, sir, I will get the constable at Reigate, who knows me well, to send me a suit.

I might find it difficult to get all the things I want here." Accordingly, for the next week Mark devoted himself to the ladies.
Millicent, in her interest in the work that he was about to undertake, had now quite got over her fit of ill temper, and the old cordial relations were renewed.

On the Friday he saw them into the Weymouth coach, then sauntered off to his friend Chetwynd's lodgings.
Ramoo had already sailed.

On his arrival in town he had said that he should, if possible, arrange to go out as a steward.
"Many men of my color who have come over here with their masters go back in that way," he said, in answer to Mark's remonstrances.

"It is much more comfortable that way than as a passenger.


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