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The Absentee

CHAPTER XV
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'His executor is the very man who will do your business--your friend Sir James Brooke is the executor.

All papers, of course, are in his hands; or he can have access to any that are in the hands of the family.

The family seat is within a few miles of Sir James Brooke's, in Huntingdonshire, where, as I told you before, he now is.' 'I'll go to him immediately--set out in the mail this night.

Just in time!' cried Lord Colambre, pulling out his watch with one hand, and ringing the bell with the other.
'Run and take a place for me in the mail for Huntingdon.

Go directly,' said Lord Colambre to the servant.
'And take two places, if you please, sir,' said the count.


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