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A Dark Night’s Work

CHAPTER XVI AND LAST
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I am sure Judge Corbet will see me, if you will tell him I am here.

Miss Wilkins.

He will know the name." "Well, then; will you wait here till I have got breakfast in ?" said the man, letting her into the hall, and pointing to the bench there, he took her, from her dress, to be a lady's-maid or governess, or at most a tradesman's daughter; and, besides, he was behindhand with all his preparations.

She came in and sat down.
"You will tell him I am here," she said faintly.
"Oh, yes, never fear: I'll send up word, though I don't believe he'll come to you before breakfast." He told a page, who ran upstairs, and, knocking at the judge's door, said that a Miss Jenkins wanted to speak to him.
"Who ?" asked the judge from the inside.
"Miss Jenkins.

She said you would know the name, sir." "Not I.


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