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The Queen of Hearts

CHAPTER III
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Isaac immediately volunteered to go to the chemist's and get it filled again.

It was as rainy and bleak an autumn night as on the memorable past occasion when he lost his way and slept at the road-side inn.
On going into the chemist's shop he was passed hurriedly by a poorly-dressed woman coming out of it.

The glimpse he had of her face struck him, and he looked back after her as she descended the door-steps.
"You're noticing that woman ?" said the chemist's apprentice behind the counter.

"It's my opinion there's something wrong with her.

She's been asking for laudanum to put to a bad tooth.


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