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The Wrong Box

CHAPTER IX
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Nothing against the tipple.

Only thing: here's a valuable uncle disappeared.

Now, what I want to know: where's valuable uncle ?' 'I have told you: he is at Browndean,' answered Morris, furtively wiping his brow, for these repeated hints began to tell upon him cruelly.
'Very easy say Brown--Browndee--no' so easy after all!' cried Michael.
'Easy say; anything's easy say, when you can say it.

What I don' like's total disappearance of an uncle.

Not businesslike.' And he wagged his head.
'It is all perfectly simple,' returned Morris, with laborious calm.
'There is no mystery.


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