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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

CHAPTER 11
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So he overhauled the nursery window, charged a remunerative figure for it, and departed.
"What we suffered from false alarms for the next three years no stylographic pen can describe.

During the next three months I always flew with my gun to the room indicated, and the coachman always sallied forth with his battery to support me.

But there was never anything to shoot at--windows all tight and secure.

We always sent down for the expert next day, and he fixed those particular windows so they would keep quiet a week or so, and always remembered to send us a bill about like this: Wire ............................$2.15 Nipple...........................

.75 Two hours' labor ................


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