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The Story of the Treasure Seekers

CHAPTER 3
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Whether it turns out a murder or a missing will is just a fluke.' 'That's one way,' Dicky said.

'Another is to get a paper and find two advertisements or bits of news that fit.

Like this: "Young Lady Missing," and then it tells about all the clothes she had on, and the gold locket she wore, and the colour of her hair, and all that; and then in another piece of the paper you see, "Gold locket found," and then it all comes out.' We sent H.O.for the paper at once, but we could not make any of the things fit in.

The two best were about how some burglars broke into a place in Holloway where they made preserved tongues and invalid delicacies, and carried off a lot of them.

And on another page there was, 'Mysterious deaths in Holloway.' Oswald thought there was something in it, and so did Albert's uncle when we asked him, but the others thought not, so Oswald agreed to drop it.
Besides, Holloway is a long way off.


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