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The Circular Study

CHAPTER X
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Remember Evelyn! AMOS'S SON.
There must be something wrong.

Sweetwater must have been led astray by a series of extraordinary coincidences.

Dropping the lid of the inkstand in a way to make the young man smile, he looked up.
"I'm afraid it's been a fool chase, Sweetwater.

The facts you relate in regard to this couple, the fact of their having been married at all, tally so little with what we have been led to expect from certain other evidences which have come in----" "Pardon me, sir, but will you hear me out?
At the Imperial, where they were married, I learned that the father and daughter had registered as coming from a small place in Pennsylvania; but I could learn nothing in regard to the bridegroom.

He had not appeared on the scene till the time for the ceremony, and after the marriage was seen to take his bride away in one carriage while the old gentleman departed in another.


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