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The Summons

CHAPTER XX
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Lady Splay casting a look of appeal towards her refractory young guests hurried forward to meet him.
"This is my husband." She presented him to the others.

"I was going to send the motor-car to meet the seven o'clock train." "Oh, thank you, Lady Splay," Mr.Albany Todd returned in a booming voice.

"I have been staying not more than twenty miles from here, with a dear old friend, a rare and inestimable being, Lord Bilberry, and he was kind enough to send me in." "What, old man Bilberry," cried Harold Jupp.

"Isn't he balmy ?" "Balmy, sir ?" Mr.Todd asked in surprise.

"He takes the air every morning, if that is what you mean." He turned again to Lady Splay.


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