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The Admirable Tinker

CHAPTER TWELVE
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She said she had not seen a lady and a little girl walking, but a mile out of Monte Carlo she had seen a lady and a little girl in a carriage with two gentlemen; and the horses were galloping: oh, but they did gallop; they had nearly run over her.

The young lady had cried out to her as they passed.

She had not caught what she said; she had thought it a joke.
"It looks very like them: we had better follow this carriage.

What do you think, Mr.Rainer ?" said Sir Tancred.

"Of course they may be back at the hotel by now, and we may be on a wild-goose chase." "I guess we can afford to be laughed at; but we can't afford to lose a chance," said the millionaire.
"They passed this woman a mile out of Monte Carlo, and we're four miles and a half out," said Tinker.


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