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Mrs. Warren’s Daughter

CHAPTER I
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She met her Canon--the Alpine traveller ...

in Switzerland.

I felt if she took no money from mother's 'houses,' I could perhaps make a home with her, or at any rate have _some_ kith and kin to go to.

She had no children....
But--I must have told you all this years ago ?--she almost pushed me out of her house for fear I should stay till the Canon came in from the afternoon service; denied everything; threatened me as though I was a blackmailer; almost looked as if she could have killed me and buried me in the garden of the Canonry....
"I've examined the business of the _Warren Hotels Ltd._ since then, but it's a private company, and all its doings are so cleverly concealed....

Aunt Liz doesn't figure amongst the shareholders any more than Crofts does.


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