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The Prelude to Adventure

CHAPTER XIV
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I thought it was the only way to save you.

He's been at me now for days; ever since that time he stopped me in Outer Court and asked me why I was a friend of yours.
He's been coming to my room--at night--at all sorts of times--and just sitting there and looking at me." Olva came across and touched Bunning's arm: "Poor Bunning! What a brute I was to tell you!" "He used to come and say nothing--just look at me.

I couldn't stand it, you know.

I'm not a clever man--not at all clever--and I used to try and think of things to talk about, but it always seemed to come back to Carfax--every time." "And then--when you told me the other day about your caring for Miss Craven--I felt that I must do something.

I'd always puzzled, you know, why I should be brought into it at all.


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