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The Daffodil Mystery

CHAPTER XXXVI
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Down, down, down, and leave you with him, because he wanted you!" He was gripping her by both wrists, glaring down into her face, and there was something so wolfish, so inhuman, in the madman's staring eyes that her mouth went dry, and when she tried to scream no sound came.

Then she lurched forward towards him, and he caught her under the arms and dragged her to her feet.
"Fainted, eh?
You'll faint, me lady," he chuckled.

"Don't you wish you might never come round, eh?
I'll bet you would if you knew ...

if you knew!" He dropped her on the grass by the side of the road, took a luggage strap from the front of the cab, and bound her hands.

Then he picked up the scarf she had been wearing and tied it around her mouth.
With an extraordinary display of strength he lifted her without effort and put her back into the corner of the seat.


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