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The Agony Column

CHAPTER II
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He was a tall handsome man, fair-haired, mustached--the very figure that you, my lady, in your boarding-school days, would have wished him to be.

His manner, I am bound to admit, was not cordial.
"Captain," I began, "I am very sorry to intrude--" It wasn't the thing to say, of course, but I was fussed.

"However, I happen to be a neighbor of yours, and I have here a letter of introduction from your cousin, Archibald Enwright.

I met him in Interlaken and we became very good friends." "Indeed!" said the captain.
He held out his hand for the letter, as though it were evidence at a court-martial.

I passed it over, wishing I hadn't come.


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