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The Powers and Maxine

CHAPTER XI
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I hadn't been there for two minutes when a man turned the corner, walking very fast.

As he passed the street lamp just before reaching the garden wall, I saw him plainly--not his face, but his figure, and he was young and well dressed, in travelling clothes.

I thought he looked like an Englishman.

He went straight to your gate and rang.

A moment later someone, I couldn't see who, opened the gate and let him in.
Involuntarily I took a step forward, with the idea of following--of pushing my way in to see who he was and who had opened the gate.


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