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The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton

CHAPTER IX
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To-day the sky is so blue and the wind blows from the west and the sun is just hot enough to draw the perfume from the gorse and the heather.

Come and walk with me over the moors.

We will race the shadows, for surely we can move quicker than those fleecy little morsels of clouds!" "Certainly not," she retorted, with a firmness which was suspiciously emphasized.

"I couldn't think of walking anywhere with a person whom I didn't know! And besides, I have to go and make tea in a few minutes." He looked over her shoulder and sighed.

A trim parlor maid was busy arranging a small table under the cedar tree.
"Tea!" he murmured.


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