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Through the Fray

CHAPTER XIV: COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
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I am very thankful that you had a good night, for I was really anxious about you yesterday." "I feel rather heavy and stupid now," Ned said, "but I am all the better for my sleep.
"Let me think," he began, looking round the room, for up till now remembrance of the past had not come back again, "what am I doing here?
Oh! I remember now." "You are here, my boy, on a charge of which I have no doubt we shall prove you innocent.

Of course Porson and I and all your friends know you are innocent, but we have got to prove it to the world, and we shall want all your wits to help us.

But we needn't talk about that now.

The first thing for you to do is to put your head in a basin of water.

By the time you have had a good wash your breakfast will be here.


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