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The Moonstone

CHAPTER XII
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Sergeant Cuff put her at her ease directly.

He asked if any other person had been employed about the robbery before we sent for him; and hearing that another person had been called in, and was now in the house, begged leave to speak to him before anything else was done.
My lady led the way back.

Before he followed her, the Sergeant relieved his mind on the subject of the gravel walks by a parting word to the gardener.

"Get her ladyship to try grass," he said, with a sour look at the paths.

"No gravel! no gravel!" Why Superintendent Seegrave should have appeared to be several sizes smaller than life, on being presented to Sergeant Cuff, I can't undertake to explain.


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