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Jezebel’s Daughter

CHAPTER VI
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Looking from one to the other before he began the cleansing operations, he started, picked out one key, and held it up to the light.

There was something inscribed on the handle, under a layer of rust and dirt.

He snatched up his materials, and set to work with such good will that the inscription became visible in a few minutes.

He could read it plainly--"Pink-Room Cupboard." A word followed which was not quite so intelligible to him--the word "Duplicate." But he had no need to trouble himself about this.

"Pink-Room Cupboard," on a second key, told him all he wanted to know.
His eyes sparkled--he opened his lips--looked at Mrs.Wagner, busily engaged with her pen--and restrained himself within the hard limits of silence.


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