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The Secret Passage

CHAPTER VIII
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I expect it will all go to Juliet.

She never liked me." "Yet you were frequently at her house." "I was," confessed Basil candidly.

"I tried to make myself as civil as possible, so that she might remember me.

Between ourselves, Mallow, I am deuced hard up.

My mother hasn't much money, I have none of my own, and old Octagon is as stingy as he well can be." This sounded well coming from an idler who never did a stroke of work, and who lived on the charity of his step-father.


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