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At the Point of the Bayonet

CHAPTER 20: Home
18/56

Where are you staying ?" Harry gave the name of the hotel.
"We will send you word there, as soon as the records have been searched.

At any rate, it is certain that the birthplace of your father and the residence of his father will be found, at the time he obtained his appointment as cadet.

I have no doubt that the letter communicating his death was directed to that address." The next day a messenger brought a note to Harry's hotel: "Dear Major Lindsay: "We find that your grandfather was a landowner in Norfolk.

His address was Parley House, Merdford.

The letter sent to him with the account of your father's death was answered by a son of his; who stated that his father had died, two months before, and enquired if any news had been obtained of an infant who, they had learned, had been born some months before the murder of its parents.


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