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CHAPTER XXIII
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But there is some one else in it, too." "A third person ?" "Yes," answered Turner.

"A third person.

I have been watching the thing, Dick, and am not such a fat old fool as you take me for.

It was neither Miste nor Devar who cashed that draft.

If you catch Miste you will probably catch some one else, too, some knight-errant of finance, or I am much mistaken." At this moment the train moved on, and my friend composed his person for a sleep which lasted until we reached Saxmundham.
"I suppose," said my companion, waking up there, "that Mademoiselle of the _beaux yeux_ is to marry Alphonse when the fortune is recovered ?" "I suppose so," answered I, and John Turner closed his eyes again with a queer look.
In the station enclosure at Lowestoft we found Alphonse Giraud enjoying himself immensely on the high seat of a dog-cart, controlling, with many French exclamations, and a partial success, the movements of a cob which had taken a fancy to progress backwards round and round the yard.
"It is," he explained, with a jerky salutation of the whip, "the Sunday-school treat departing for Yarmouth.


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