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Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days

CHAPTER I
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Acute double pneumonia! Sometimes happens like that! I can give a certificate.

But of course you will have to go to the registrar's and register the death." Even without an inquest, he saw that the affair would be unthinkably distressing.

He felt that it would kill him, and he put his hand to his face.
"Where are Mr.Farll's relatives to be found ?" the doctor asked.
"Mr.Farll's relatives ?" Priam Farll repeated without comprehending.
Then he understood.

Dr.Cashmore thought that Henry Leek's name was Farll! And all the sensitive timidity in Priam Farll's character seized swiftly at the mad chance of escape from any kind of public appearance as Priam Farll.

Why should he not let it be supposed that he, and not Henry Leek, had expired suddenly in Selwood Terrace at 5 a.m.He would be free, utterly free! "Yes," said the doctor.


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