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The Stowmarket Mystery

CHAPTER XXIII
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Early in the morning, Mr.Robert Hume-Frazer quitted his hotel for a stroll in the West End, and narrowly escaped being run over in Whitehall.

About 8 p.m.his cousin, Mr.David Hume-Frazer, was driving through the Avenue in a hansom, when the vehicle upset, and the young gentleman was thrown out.

He was picked up in a terrible condition, and is reported to be in danger of his life." The barrister read the paragraph aloud.
"It is casuistic," he commented, "but that defect is pardonable.

After all, it is not absolutely mendacious, like a War Office telegram.

Winter, go and bring joy to the heart of some penny-a-liner by giving him that item.


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