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The Devil’s Paw

CHAPTER III
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We stood still and got uncommonly wet.

And I shot a goose, which made me very happy." "Then it must have been the conversation," she declared.

"Is your friend a prophet or only one of the multitude ?" "A prophet, most decidedly.

He is a Mr.Miles Furley, of whom you must have heard." She started a little.
"Miles Furley!" she repeated.

"I had no idea that he lived in this part of the world." "He has a small country house somewhere in Norfolk," Julian told her, "and he takes a cottage down here at odd times for the wild-fowl shooting." "Will you take me to see him to-morrow ?" she asked.
"With pleasure, so long as you promise not to talk socialism with him." "I will promise that readily, out of consideration to my escort.


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