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Mr. Fortescue

CHAPTER I
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He looks after everything, and an uncommon sharp domo he is, too, Jim says.

Nobody can do him a penny piece.
And then there is Mr.Fortescue's body-servant; he's a dark man, with a big scar on one cheek, and rings in his ears.

They call him Rumun." "Nonsense! There's no such name as Rumun." "That's what I told Jim.

He said it was a rum 'un, but his name was Rumun, and no mistake." "Dark, and rings in his ears! The man is probably a Spaniard.

You mean Ramon." "No, I don't; I mean Rumun," returned Tawney, doggedly.


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