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The Late Mrs. Null

CHAPTER II
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He has all the same as given it up, for he's waiting to hear from a man at Niagara, who will never write to him, and probably hasn't any thing to write, and as I advised you to pay the money I feel bound in honor to see that the business is done, if it can be done." "Have you a brother or a husband to help you in these investigations and searches ?" asked Lawrence.
"No," said the cashier with a smile.

"Sometimes I send our boy, and as to boarding houses, I can go to them myself after we shut up here." "I wish," said Lawrence, "that you were married, and that you had a husband who would not interfere in this matter at all, but who would go about with you, and so enable you to follow up your clew thoroughly.

You take up the business in the right spirit, and I believe you would succeed in finding Mr Keswick, but I don't like the idea of sending you about by yourself." "I won't deny," said the cashier, "that since I have begun this affair I would like very much to carry it out; so, if you don't object, I won't give it up just yet, and as soon as anything happens I'll let you know.".


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