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Richard Vandermarck

CHAPTER XXV
2/11

We had found them in order, and we had come there from the steamer.

I was eminently happy at being where I wanted to be.
"How odd it seems to be in town and have nobody know it," I said, thinking, with a little quiet satisfaction, how pleased several people I could name would be, if they only knew we were so near them.
"Nobody but Mr.Vandermarck, I suppose," said Mrs.Throckmorton.
"Not even he," I answered, "for he can't have got my letter yet; it was only mailed the day we started.

It was only a chance, you know, our getting those staterooms, and we were in such a hurry.

I was so much obliged to that dear, old German gentleman for dying.

We shouldn't have been here if he hadn't." "Pauline, my dear!" "Well, I can't think, as he's probably in heaven, that he can have begrudged us his tickets to New York." "I should think not," said Mrs.Throckmorton, with a little sigh.


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