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The Lodger

CHAPTER XIX
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And a coat--were you able to see what sort of a coat he was wearing ?" "'E 'adn't got no coat" she said decidedly.

"No coat at all! I remembers that very perticulerly.

I thought it queer, as it was so cold--everybody as can wears some sort o' coat this weather!" A juryman who had been looking at a strip of newspaper, and apparently not attending at all to what the witness was saying, here jumped up and put out his hand.
"Yes ?" the coroner turned to him.
"I just want to say that this 'ere witness--if her name is Lizzie Cole, began by saying The Avenger was wearing a coat--a big, heavy coat.

I've got it here, in this bit of paper." "I never said so!" cried the woman passionately.

"I was made to say all those things by the young man what came to me from the Evening Sun.


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