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One of Our Conquerors

CHAPTER XXI
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DARTREY FENELLAN.
Had Nataly and Nesta known who was outside helping Skepsey to play ball with the boys, they would not have worked through their share of the performance with so graceful a composure.

Even Simeon Fenellan was unaware that his half-brother Dartrey had landed in England.

Dartrey went first to Victor's office, where he found Skepsey packing the day's letters and circulars into the bag for the delivery of them at Lakelands.

They sprang a chatter, and they missed the last of the express trains which did, not greatly signify, Skepsey said, 'as it was a Concert.' To hear his hero talk, was the music for him; and he richly enjoyed the pacing along the railway-platform.
Arrived on the grounds, they took opposite sides in a game of rounders, at that moment tossing heads or tails for innings.


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