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CHAPTER SEVEN--ON THE PAVEMENT
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My brother-in-law knows nothing of women," he cried with an air of profound, experienced wisdom.
What he imagined he knew of women himself I can't tell.

I did not know anything of the opportunities he might have had.

But this is a subject which, if approached with undue solemnity, is apt to elude one's grasp entirely.

No doubt Fyne knew something of a woman who was Captain Anthony's sister.

But that, admittedly, had been a very solemn study.


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