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The Old Man in the Corner

CHAPTER XXXII
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21, and he went up to it immediately on his arrival, ordering some breakfast to be brought up to him.
"At eleven o'clock the Earl of Brockelsby called to see his brother and remained with him until about twelve.

In the afternoon deceased went out, and returned for his dinner at seven o'clock in company with a gentleman whom the cashier knew well by sight, Mr.Timothy Beddingfield, the lawyer, of Paradise Street.

The gentlemen had their dinner downstairs, and after that they went up to the Hon.

Mr.de Genneville's room for coffee and cigars.
"'I could not say at what time Mr.Beddingfield left,' continued the cashier, 'but I rather fancy I saw him in the hall at about 9.15 p.m.

He was wearing an Inverness cape over his dress clothes and a Glengarry cap.


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