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Colonel Thorndyke’s Secret

CHAPTER I
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This will do capitally for the present.
Ramoo will do the cooking for me in future.

He need not go into the kitchen to scare the maids.

I could see they looked at him as if he had been his infernal majesty, as he came in.

He can do it anywhere; all he wants is an iron pot with some holes in it, and some charcoal.

He can squat out there on the veranda, or, if it is bad weather, any shed will do for him.
"Well, it is nice to be home again, John," he went on, after he had eaten a few mouthfuls of chicken and drunk a tumbler of Burgundy and water.


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