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From Whose Bourne

CHAPTER XVI
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I took one capsule of quinine.' It has been my habit for years, when I feel badly.

I thought nothing of that." "My dear sir," said Lecocq, "I warned you, and I warned these gentlemen, that the very things that seem trivial to a thoughtless person are the things that sometimes count.

You should have told me _everything_.

If you took anything at all, you should have said so.

If you had said to me, 'Monsieur Lecocq, before I retired I took five grains of quinine,' I should have at once said; 'Find where that quinine is, and see if it _is_ quinine, and see if there has not been a mistake.' I was entirely misled; I was stupidly misled." "Well, if there was stupidity," returned Brenton, "it was your own." "Come, come, gentlemen," laughed Speed, "all's well that ends well.
Everybody has been mistaken, that's all about it.


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