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The Nether World

CHAPTER I
20/21

In five minutes she was back in the kitchen.
'See 'ere,' she addressed Jane.

'You know where Mr.Kirkwood works in St.John's Square?
You've been before now.

Well, you're to go an' wait at the door till he comes out, and then you're to tell him to come to Mrs.Hewett at wunst.

Understand ?--Why ain't these tea-things all cleared away?
All right Wait till you come back, that's all.

Now be off, before I skin you alive!' On the floor in a corner of the kitchen lay something that had once been a girl's hat.


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