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The Kingdom of the Blind

CHAPTER XXIII
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"Isn't this a little out of your line, though, Thomson ?" Sir Meyville suddenly leaned forward.
"That is the young man," he declared.

"I took him to be the officer in command here and I showed him over my workshop.

Quite a mistake--absolutely a wrong impression!" "It was a mistake for which you could scarcely hold me responsible," Granet protested, "and you must really excuse me if I fail to see the connection.

Perhaps you will tell me, Major Thomson, what I am here for ?" Major Thomson seated himself before the desk and leaned a little back in his chair.
"We sent for you," he said, "because we are looking for two men who lit the magnesium light which directed the Zeppelin last night to this locality.

One of them lies on the lawn there, with a bullet through his brain.


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