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The Thirty-nine Steps

CHAPTER FIVE
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I stuck the cap on my head, and added his gloves to my get-up.

The dusty roadman in a minute was transformed into one of the neatest motorists in Scotland.

On Mr Jopley's head I clapped Turnbull's unspeakable hat, and told him to keep it there.
Then with some difficulty I turned the car.

My plan was to go back the road he had come, for the watchers, having seen it before, would probably let it pass unremarked, and Marmie's figure was in no way like mine.
'Now, my child,' I said, 'sit quite still and be a good boy.

I mean you no harm.


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