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The Shadow of the Rope

CHAPTER XXII
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"Oh, don't get down," he added, as Langholm rose.

"I won't talk about her any more." "I am staying in this street," explained Langholm, guardedly.
"And these are my lodgings," rejoined the other, pulling a letter from his pocket, and handing the envelope to Langholm.

"Let me hear from you, for pity's sake, as soon as you hear from her!" Langholm sauntered on the pavement until the omnibus which he had left was no longer distinguishable from the general traffic of the thoroughfare.

The address on the envelope was that of the lodging-house at which he was to have called that night.

He was glad now that his luck had not left him to find Severino for himself; the sense of fatuity would have been even keener than it was.


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