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Colonel Thorndyke’s Secret

CHAPTER XIV
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"Then I can tell you he has come to the wrong shop.

I have only got to whisper it about, and his life would not be worth an hour's purchase.

I had meant to stick a knife in him on the first opportunity, but this will save me the trouble." "Well, you can have your revenge and five guineas besides," Flash said.
"But we must be there at the time.

I should like him to know that I was at the bottom of his being caught." They stood talking together for a few minutes, and then separated, Flash and his companion going back to a quiet lodging they had taken until they could finish their arrangements for disposing of their furniture and belongings before going abroad, while at the same time they finished plucking a country greenhorn they had met at a coffee house.

Two days later, wrapped up in great coats, and with rough caps pulled down over their eyes, they entered the thieves' resort half an hour before Mark's usual time of getting there.


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