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The Club of Queer Trades

CHAPTER 2
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He didn't say anything at all.

What does it mean ?" Grant pointed to the portly old gentleman on the ground.
"That is what it means," he said.
Drummond, on observing a fat gentleman lying so calmly about the place, jumped back, as from a mouse.
"What ?" he said weakly, "...

what ?" Basil bent suddenly down and tore a paper out of Sir Walter's breastpocket, a paper which the baronet, even in his hampered state, seemed to make some effort to retain.
It was a large loose piece of white wrapping paper, which Mr Jasper Drummond read with a vacant eye and undisguised astonishment.

As far as he could make out, it consisted of a series of questions and answers, or at least of remarks and replies, arranged in the manner of a catechism.
The greater part of the document had been torn and obliterated in the struggle, but the termination remained.

It ran as follows: C.Says...


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