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The Light That Failed

CHAPTER III
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'Oh, you rabbit-hutches!' said he, addressing a row of highly respectable semi-detached residences.

'Do you know what you've got to do later on?
You have to supply me with men-servants and maid-servants,'-- here he smacked his lips,--'and the peculiar treasure of kings.

Meantime I'll clothes and boots, and presently I will return and trample on you.' He stepped forward energetically; he saw that one of his shoes was burst at the side.

As he stooped to make investigations, a man jostled him into the gutter.

'All right,' he said.
'That's another nick in the score.


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