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The Champdoce Mystery

CHAPTER XXVIII
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How much do you earn every day, Daddy Tantaine?
Well, that chap makes his thirty or forty francs every night, and does precious little for it.

I should like a business like that, and I think that I shall secure one soon." "Have patience.

I thought that you were going into business with those two young men you were drinking beer with at the Grand Turk ?" Toto uttered a shrill cry of anger at these words.

"Business with them ?" shrieked he; "they are regular clever night thieves." "Have they done you any harm, my poor lad ?" "Yes; they have utterly ruined me.

Luckily, I saw Mascarin yesterday, and he set me up in the hot-chestnut line.


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