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Man and Wife

CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH
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"It came to that, I think, Smith." "Yes, Jones, it certainly came to that." The only two men who still cared nothing about it were Geoffrey and the surgeon.

There sat the first, stolidly neutral--indifferent alike to the attack and the defense.

There stood the second, pursuing his investigation--with the growing interest in it of a man who was beginning to see his way to the end.
"Hear my defense, gentlemen," continued Sir Patrick, as courteously as ever.

"You belong, remember, to a nation which especially claims to practice the rules of fair play.

I must beg to remind you of what I said in the garden.


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