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Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces

CHAPTER XII
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One question more, Sir Henry.

Heaven forbid it, of course, but if anything should happen to Logan to-night, whom would you put on guard over the horse to-morrow ?" "Do you think I could persuade anybody if a third man perished ?" said the baronet, answering one question with another.

"I don't believe there's a groom in England who'd take the risk for love or money.

There would be nothing for it but to do the watching myself.

What's that?
Do it?
Certainly, I'd do it! Everybody that knows me knows that." "Ah, I see!" said Cleek, and lapsed into silence again.
"But you'll come, won't you ?" exclaimed Sir Henry agitatedly.


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