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Marcella

CHAPTER X
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The lady should be happy." "Of course," said Wharton, drily.

"However, neither she nor Raeburn are very happy just at this moment.

A horrible affair happened down there last night.

One of Lord Maxwell's gamekeepers and a 'helper,' a lad of seventeen, were killed last night in a fight with poachers.

I only just heard the outlines of it before I came away, but I got a telegram just before going into congress, asking me to defend the man charged with the murder." A quick expression of repulsion and disgust crossed Bennett's face.
"There have been a whole crop of such cases lately," he said.


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