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The Lodger

CHAPTER VIII
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Then, of course, we must try and find out someone--some private person-like, who's watched that knife in the criminal's possession.

It's there the reward--the five hundred pounds will come in." "Oh, I'd give anything to see that knife!" exclaimed Daisy, clasping her hands together.
"You cruel, bloodthirsty, girl!" cried her stepmother passionately.
They all looked round at her, surprised.
"Come, come, Ellen!" said Bunting reprovingly.
"Well, it is a horrible idea!" said his wife sullenly.

"To go and sell a fellow-being for five hundred pounds." But Daisy was offended.

"Of course I'd like to see it!" she cried defiantly.

"I never said nothing about the reward.


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