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Greenmantle

CHAPTER TWO
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'What is it?
For Heaven's sake put me out of pain.

Have we to tout deputations of suspicious neutrals over munition works or take the shivering journalist in a motor-car where he can imagine he sees a Boche ?' 'The news will keep.

But I can tell you this much.

It's about as safe and easy as to go through the German lines with a walking-stick.' 'Come, that's not so dusty,' said Sandy, and began cheerfully on the muffins.
I must spare a moment to introduce Sandy to the reader, for he cannot be allowed to slip into this tale by a side-door.

If you will consult the Peerage you will find that to Edward Cospatrick, fifteenth Baron Clanroyden, there was born in the year 1882, as his second son, Ludovick Gustavus Arbuthnot, commonly called the Honourable, etc.


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