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Number Seventeen

CHAPTER IX
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If you come there, Mr.
Theydon, I'll take care that I see you at once.

It is exceedingly kind of you to bother with my affairs." But Theydon had a scheme ready, having foreseen this very difficulty.
"Mr.Handyside will attend to everything," he said glibly.

"Please let me come with you.

I shan't have a moment's peace until assured that Mrs.
Forbes is suffering from little more than a slight indisposition." Evelyn looked puzzled, but was willing to agree to anything so long as she reached her mother quickly.

Handyside, too, made matters easy by lifting his hat and walking off in the direction of the luggage van.
"Well," she said, "I really don't care what happens if only I lose no time." Suiting the action to the word, she hurried toward the exit, and was murmuring something that sounded like an apology for her seeming brusqueness as they passed the ticket collector.


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