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Elster’s Folly

CHAPTER I
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He come here, nobody knew how or when, he put himself into the old shed, and has never left it again." "Who is 'Pike' ?" "It's hard to say, sir; a many would give a deal to know.

He lay in the shed a bit at first, as it were, all open.

Then he boarded up that front doorway, opened a door at the back, cut out a square hole for a window, and stuck that chimney in the roof.

And there he's lived ever since, and nobody interferes with him.

His name's Pike, and that's all that's known.
I should think my lord will see to it when he comes." "Does he work for his living ?" "Never does a stroke o' work for nobody, sir.


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