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The Last Hope

CHAPTER XXIX
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But I suspect there is a warrant out against you.

And, failing that, there is the 'Petite Jeanne' hanging about waiting to kidnap you a second time.

And Turner's at the bottom of it, damn him!" Again Dormer Colville allowed a glimpse to appear of another man quite different from the easy, indolent man-of-the-world, the well-dressed adventurer of a day when adventure was mostly sought in drawing-rooms, when scented and curled dandies were made or marred by women.

For a moment Colville was roused to anger and seemed capable of manly action.
But in an instant the humour passed and he shrugged his shoulders and gave a short, indifferent laugh beneath his breath.
"Come," he said, "lead the way and I will follow.

I have been out here since eight o'clock and it is deucedly cold.


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