[The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne]@TWC D-Link bookThe Wrong Box CHAPTER XIV 3/28
The name, with a trifling variation, bears a strong resemblance to your own.
Ah, here it is.
If you please, I will read it to you: WILIAM BENT PITMAN, if this should meet the eye of, he will hear of SOMETHING TO HIS ADVANTAGE at the far end of the main line departure platform, Waterloo Station, 2 to 4 P.M.
today. 'Is that in print ?' cried Pitman.
'Let me see it! Bent? It must be Dent! SOMETHING TO MY ADVANTAGE? Mr Finsbury, excuse me offering a word of caution; I am aware how strangely this must sound in your ears, but there are domestic reasons why this little circumstance might perhaps be better kept between ourselves.
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