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The Prelude to Adventure

CHAPTER XIV
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There are bigger things in question than Craven knowing about Carfax, and you were meant to tell him---you were really.

You've just forced me to see what's the right thing to do---that's all." Bunning was, surely, in the light of it, a romantic figure.
Miss Annett came in with the lunch.
3 As Olva was changing into his football things, Cardillac appeared.
"Come up to the field with me, will you?
I've got a hansom." Olva finished tying his boots and stood up.

Cardillac looked at him.
"My word, you seem fit." "Yes, I'm splendid, thanks." He felt splendid.

Never before had he been so conscious of the right to be alive.

His football clothes smelt of the earth and the air.


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