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"Glory be! Let's sit down. There's
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Miss Westwater whistled. "Now how o
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Dougal, who had been knitting his b
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from innumerable other Browns. As w
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aristocracy was wholly of race; it
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droop at the corners of her mouth,
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was the kind of person Jaikie would
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his employer had entangled himself.
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pan we were in the middle of the fi
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"Very likely they will… . The sec
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Chapter 7 BEGINNING OF A GREAT MAN'
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purple and green. He had found John
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of, but his personal safety. These
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an influence, which I hold in trust
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a pretty useful intelligence system
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Chapter 8 CASIMIR Miss Alison Westw
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got to straighten out things here w
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the Castle, he had wired to his Gla
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Barbon motioned them to a table, wh
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theory. The man had written a famou
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doubtless much weight with Craw, wh
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scandalously treated by Fate, and f
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Allins—Allins was on holiday—be
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"I insist on carrying one of the pa
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"No bad. Pure-bred Solomon. He's yo
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Jaikie, when he chose to wheedle, w
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instinct. How unlike the crisp shav
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propulsion of the two had its effec
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Chapter 10 THE SECOND DAY OF THE HE
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"I cannot go to London in these clo
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terror of it haunted him, and somet
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"I hope you do not affect pessimism
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longer in the new world to which he
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Chapter 11 THE TROUBLES OF A JOURNA
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kitchen garden. Beyond it he saw th
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ecoming very angry. Patriotism adde
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say no more about last night. I can
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"That's fine!" said Dickson heartil
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night. He took you for Craw, and he
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He was also feeling very well. Autu
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So at a small draper's, almost next
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water pumps, and at the corner to m
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About half-past five the bustle beg
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Jaikie presented him with the two p
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Jaikie despatched the wire and walk
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"I quite understand. But this is re
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Town Hall. There it appeared from g
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loud applause. But from the man on
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Chapter 14 PORTAWAY--ALISON Jaikie
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At two minutes before eleven a girl
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when he saw who arrived at the stat
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"I have no intention of going to Lo
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Mr Craw saw it, too, in the middle
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"could carry on for a little. He'd
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Chapter 15 DISAPPEARANCE OF MR CRAW
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that if he kept up the right bank o
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Jaikie looked at the four men, the
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"They could kidnap his Royal Highne
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"You must entrust him to us. Miss W
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well, and had obeyed Jaikie as a do
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Chapter 16 ENEMY'S COUNTRY Jaikie,
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"Good God!" came the answer. "He's
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fisherman body who had got a day's
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kind, and they've got some hold on
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"Here! Play fair!" said Jaikie. "I'
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what he calls their rights as citiz
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escaped from the cave of Polyphemus
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station, but it is also the junctio
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he was borne past. Then he went out
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Jaikie spent a pleasant morning. He
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Craw profoundly suspicious. He met
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you've got to do is to be there to
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They have killed three cockerels…
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Chapter 18 SOLWAY SANDS This simple
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"He was with me," said Jaikie. "Don
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Bannister to carry her to her bedro
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for our job, Mr Charles. The wind's
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Chapter 19 MR CRAW IS MASTER IN HIS
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"Our names do not matter." Mastrovi
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"You are insolent, sir," he rapped
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The butler was a figure of panic. "
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In the little gallery the estate me
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Craw—"and I'll chairge them." The
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and I warn you that, if I am ever t
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Chapter 20 VALEDICTORY Next evening
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For the first time in his life he h
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