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The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton

CHAPTER XX
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He won't have nothing to do with his friends, chucked playing marbles or hopscotch, and goes out in the country, picking flowers.

Just to humor him, the first lot he brought home I put in one of those vases that ma brought us from Yarmouth, and what do you think he did ?--threw the vase out of the window and bought with his own pocket money a plain china bowl." Burton listened in blank amazement.

As yet the light had not come.
"Go on," he murmured.

"Anything else ?" "Up comes his master a few days ago," Ellen continued.

"Fairly scared me to death.


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