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The Daffodil Mystery

CHAPTER XXXI
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And you--you've only got what _he's_ given you.

Every penny you earned he gave you, did Mr.Lyne.He was a friend to everybody--to the poor, even to a hook like me." His eyes filled with tears and Mr.Milburgh looked round to see if he was being observed.
"Now, don't talk nonsense!" he said under his breath, "and listen, my man; if anybody asks you whether you have seen Mr.Milburgh, you haven't, you understand ?" "Oh, I understand," said the man.

"But I knew you! There's nobody connected with him that I don't remember.

He lifted me up out of the gutter, he did.

He's my idea of God!" They had reached a quiet corner of the Gardens and Milburgh motioned the man to sit beside him on a garden seat.
For the first time that day he experienced a sense of confidence in the wisdom of his choice of disguise.


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