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The Wrong Box

CHAPTER VII
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In holiday-time the street is the arena of the young bloods of the neighbourhood, and the householders have an opportunity of studying the manly art of self-defence.

And yet Norfolk Street has one claim to be respectable, for it contains not a single shop--unless you count the public-house at the corner, which is really in the King's Road.
The door of No.

7 bore a brass plate inscribed with the legend 'W.

D.
Pitman, Artist'.

It was not a particularly clean brass plate, nor was No.


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