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Tom, Dick and Harry

CHAPTER SEVEN
12/18

To my dismay the door stood wide open, and the hall was crowded with fellows claiming their luggage as it was being deposited by the railway van.

As I arrived there was an ominous silence, in the midst of which I stood on the step, and carefully rung the bell marked, not "servants," but "visitors." No one came, so after a due interval, and amid the smiles of the onlookers, I mustered up resolution to ring again, rather louder.

This time I had not to wait long.

A person dressed as a sort of butler, very red in the face, emerged from a green baize door at the end of the passage and advanced wrathfully.
"Which of you young gents keeps ringing the bell ?" demanded he.

"He's to be made an example of this time.


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