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The Lodger

CHAPTER XX
10/27

You see, Chandler came in and was telling me all about Margaret, laughing-like, and then something else happened while you was out, Ellen." "Something else happened ?" she said in a startled voice.

Getting up from her chair she came towards her husband: "What happened?
Who came ?" "Just a message for me, asking if I could go to-night to wait at a young lady's birthday party.

In Hanover Terrace it is.

A waiter -- one of them nasty Swiss fellows as works for nothing--fell out just at the last minute and so they had to send for me." His honest face shone with triumph.

The man who had taken over his old friend's business in Baker Street had hitherto behaved very badly to Bunting, and that though Bunting had been on the books for ever so long, and had always given every satisfaction.


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