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Colonel Thorndyke’s Secret

CHAPTER VII
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I fought against it to the utmost, but it was his dying prayer, and I could not refuse it.

My solicitor knows the facts of the matter, and so does Mrs.Cunningham, who brought Millicent over from India when she was only about a year old.

I may say that I especially urged that it would not be fair to you to be brought up to consider yourself to be heir to the property, but he said: "'Putting aside the estate, I have a considerable fortune.

In the first place, there are the accumulations of rent from the Reigate place.

I have never touched them, and they have been going on for twelve years.
In.


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