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The Inheritors

CHAPTER THREE
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Unless he, too, is a Dimensionist." "Oh, both--both," she answered.

I admired the tranquillity with which she converted my points into her own.

And I was very happy--it struck me as a pleasant sort of fooling....
"I suppose you will let me know some day who you are ?" I said.
"I have told you several times," she answered.
"Oh, you won't frighten me to-day," I asserted, "not here, you know, and anyhow, why should you want to ?" "I have told you," she said again.
"You've told me you were my sister," I said; "but my sister died years and years ago.

Still, if it suits you, if you want to be somebody's sister ..." "It suits me," she answered--"I want to be placed, you see." I knew that my name was good enough to place anyone.

We had been the Grangers of Etchingham since--oh, since the flood.


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