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Colonel Thorndyke’s Secret

CHAPTER XIII
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I will have four men close at hand from ten o'clock till the time the place closes, and if they hear a scrimmage, or you fire a pistol out of the window, they will rush in and seize all engaged in the row, and march them to the lock up.

Of course you will have to be included." Mark then went to Chetwynd.
"Well, what did you think of it last night ?" "Well, I own that it went against my grain to see that young fellow being victimized by a sharper." "My dear Mark, you must not use such language as that.

I fancy from what I have heard that the Honorable John is not altogether an estimable character, but to call him a sharper is going too far altogether." "I don't think that it is, for from what I saw last night I am pretty well convinced that he did not play fair.

I mean to go again tonight." "But why on earth should you mix yourself up in such an affair, Mark?
It is no business of yours; you are not an habitue of the place.

Above all, it is extremely unlikely that you are right.


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