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A Perilous Secret

CHAPTER XIII
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"There," said he, "I'll leave the little bloke my inheritance.

Perhaps you don't know I'm heir to a large estate in Westmoreland; no end of land, and half a lake, _and only eleven lives between the estate and me_.

I will leave my 'great expectations' to that young bloke.

What's his Christian name ?" "Augustus." "And what's his father's name ?" "Jonathan." Leonard then left all his property, real and personal, and all that should ever accrue to him, to Augustus Braham, son of Jonathan Braham, and left Lucy Braham sole executrix and trustee.
Then he hurried into the outer office, signed this document, and got it witnessed.

The clerks proposed to engross it.
"What for ?" said he.


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