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The Club of Queer Trades

CHAPTER 2
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I am as right about that man as I am about your having a hat on your head.

You say it cannot be tested.

I say it can.

I will take you to see my old friend Beaumont.

He is a delightful man to know." "Do you really mean-- ?" I began.
"I will apologize," he said calmly, "for our not being dressed for a call," and walking across the vast misty square, he walked up the dark stone steps and rang at the bell.
A severe servant in black and white opened the door to us: on receiving my friend's name his manner passed in a flash from astonishment to respect.


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