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A Perilous Secret

CHAPTER XXIV
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Good girl! Now et me look at you, Mr.Walter." "Why, what is the matter with _him_ ?" said the Colonel.

"I never saw him look better in all my life." "Indeed! Red spots on his cheek-bones, ditto on his temples, and his eyes glaring." "Excitement and happiness," said Walter.
The doctor took no notice of him.

"He has been outraging nature," said he, "and she will have her revenge.

We are not out of the wood yet, Colonel Clifford, and you had better put them all three under my command." "I do, my good friend; I do," said Colonel Clifford, eagerly.

"It is your department, and I don't believe in two commanders." They drew up at the great door of Clifford Hall.


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