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Garman and Worse

CHAPTER XXV
10/18

But still I know nothing further; and if there is nothing more to know, I hope we may meet as good friends.

If there should be anything further, kindly let me have a few lines.
"There, now! you see how the matter lies; let us now understand each other plainly, and I beg that you will be honourable and straightforward towards me.

On one thing you can count for a certainty, which is, that I am, in any case, Your very sincere friend, RACHEL GARMAN." When Jacob Worse had read this letter, he sprang up, seized his hat and umbrella, and went into the clerk's office.
"Has the Hamburg steamer started ?" "No, sir, but the first bell has just rung," was the answer.
"Have you any gold ?" "Yes; that is to say, not very much," answered the cashier.
"Let me have what you have got, and send Thomas over to the bank for some more.

A couple of thousand kroner or so will do." The boy ran off with a bundle of notes and a little canvas bag.
"I am going abroad, Svendsen, for a fortnight or so--I cannot say for certain.

Look, here is my address.


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