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The Jewel of Seven Stars

CHAPTER II
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It will be well that a trained nurse be in the room from time to time, and will note any symptoms, either permanent or changing, which may strike her.

My solicitors, Marvin & Jewkes, of 27B Lincoln's Inn, have full instructions in case of my death; and Mr.
Marvin has himself undertaken to see personally my wishes carried out.
I should advise you, my dear Daughter, seeing that you have no relative to apply to, to get some friend whom you can trust to either remain within the house where instant communication can be made, or to come nightly to aid in the watching, or to be within call.

Such friend may be either male or female; but, whichever it may be, there should be added one other watcher or attendant at hand of the opposite sex.
Understand, that it is of the very essence of my wish that there should be, awake and exercising themselves to my purposes, both masculine and feminine intelligences.

Once more, my dear Margaret, let me impress on you the need for observation and just reasoning to conclusions, howsoever strange.

If I am taken ill or injured, this will be no ordinary occasion; and I wish to warn you, so that your guarding may be complete.
"Nothing in my room--I speak of the curios--must be removed or displaced in any way, or for any cause whatever.


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