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The Doings Of Raffles Haw

CHAPTER V
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There was no particular polish that I could see.

He knew a little about books and pictures, just enough to appreciate them, but nothing more.

No, I fancy that he is a man quite in our own position of life, who has in some way inherited a vast sum.

Of course it is difficult for me to form an estimate, but I should judge that what I saw to-day--house, pictures, jewels, books, and so on--could never have been bought under twenty millions, and I am sure that that figure is entirely an under-statement." "I never knew but one Haw," said old McIntyre, drumming his fingers on the table; "he was a foreman in my pin-fire cartridge-case department.
But he was an elderly single man.

Well, I hope he got it all honestly.


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