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The Avenger

CHAPTER XII
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Bills from restaurants, too; why, he seems to have thought nothing of spending a quid or two on a dinner or a supper.

Photographs of ladies, little notes asking him to tea; why, between you and me, Mr.
Wrayson, sir, he was living like a prince! And look here!" He rose to his feet and planked down a bank-book on the desk in front of Wrayson.
"Look here, sir," he declared.

"Every three months, within a day or two, cash--five hundred pounds.

Here you are.

Here's the last: March 27--cash, L500! Look back! January 1--By cash L500! October 2--cash, L500! There you are, right back to the very day he arrived in England.
And he left South Africa with ten bob of mine in his pocket, after he'd paid his passage! and from what I can hear, he never did a day's work after he landed.


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