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The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton

CHAPTER XXVII
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"One has to be so careful.

You are such deceivers, you know! What's the attraction ?" "You!" he whispered.
"What a caution you are!" she exclaimed.

"I like that, too, after not coming near me for months! What are you looking so scared about, all of a sudden ?" Burton was looking through the garishly papered walls of the public-house sitting-room, out into the world.

He was certainly a little paler.
"Haven't I been in for months ?" he asked softly.
She stared at him.
"Well, I suppose you know!" she retorted.

"Pretty shabby I thought it of you, too, after coming in and making such a fuss as you used to pretty well every afternoon.


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