[The Club of Queer Trades by G. K. Chesterton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Club of Queer Trades CHAPTER 2 40/44
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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