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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XXXIX
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He has blown his brains out.' Seated plunged in the armchair, with stretched legs and eyes at the black fire-grate, Fleetwood told of the gathering under the tent, and Mallard seen, seen drinking champagne; Mallard no longer seen, not missed.
'He killed himself three fields off.

He must have been careful to deaden the sound.

Small pocket-pistol hardly big enough to--but anything serves.

Couple of brats came running up to Chummy Potts:--"Gentleman's body bloody in a ditch." Chummy came to me, and we went.

Clean dead;--in the mouth, pointed up; hole through the top of the skull.


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