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The Club of Queer Trades

CHAPTER 3
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But we've got to see 'im.

Now as you know, 'e shuts 'isself up and never opens the door to a soul; only you don't know why and we does.

The only one as can ever get at 'im is 'is mother.
Well, it's a confounded funny coincidence,' he said, accenting the penultimate, 'it's a very unusual piece of good luck, but you're 'is mother.' "'When first I saw 'er picture,' said the man Bill, shaking his head in a ruminant manner, 'when I first saw it I said--old Shorter.

Those were my exact words--old Shorter.' "'What do you mean, you wild creatures ?' I gasped.

'What am I to do ?' "'That's easy said, your 'oldness,' said the man with the revolver, good-humouredly; 'you've got to put on those clothes,' and he pointed to a poke-bonnet and a heap of female clothes in the corner of the room.
"I will not dwell, Mr Swinburne, upon the details of what followed.


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