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Colonel Thorndyke’s Secret

CHAPTER II
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I will go up and see what they are going to do.

If they try to break in anywhere down here, do you come at once quietly up to me." The Squire had taken off his boots before he lay down, and, holding his heavy hunting crop in his hand, he went quietly upstairs.

As he went to the window he heard Arthur Bastow say angrily: "Confound the old woman! she has locked the door; she has never played me that trick before.

There is a ladder in the stable, and I will get in at that window up there and open it for you.

Or you may as well come up that way, too, and then you can stow the things away in my room at once, and have done with it." The Squire went hastily down.
"Come upstairs, Knapp," he whispered to the constable.


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