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Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days

CHAPTER II
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Single rooms from 2-1/2 guineas, double from 4 guineas weekly.
Phone 10,073 Western.

Trefusis Mansion, W." At that moment a hansom cab came ambling down Selwood Terrace.
Impulsively he hailed it.
"'Ere, guv'nor," said the cabman, seeing with an expert eye that Priam Farll was unaccustomed to the manipulation of luggage.

"Give this 'ere Hackenschmidt a copper to lend ye a hand.

You're only a light weight." A small and emaciated boy, with the historic remains of a cigarette in his mouth, sprang like a monkey up the steps, and, not waiting to be asked, snatched the trunk from Priam's hands.

Priam gave him one of Leek's sixpences for his feats of strength, and the boy spat generously on the coin, at the same time, by a strange skill, clinging to the cigarette with his lower lip.


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