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A Man of Mark

CHAPTER VIII
19/21

We heard from them that no one had come along.

When we got home, he'd been gone two hours!" "How did he manage it ?" "A woman, sir," said my warrior, with supreme disgust.

"Gave her a kiss and ten dollars to undo the front door, and then he was off! He daren't go to the stables to get a horse, so he was forced to limp away on his game leg.

A plucky one he is, too," he concluded.
"Poor old Johnny!" said I."You didn't go after him ?" "No time, sir.

Couldn't tire the horses.


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