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THE MAN WHO HAD FAILED FOR EVERYTHING
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Holsworthy my intentions beforehand, and it rather shocked him. He was too much of a gentleman to wish to spy upon the girl he had promised to marry. However, in my case, there need be no such scruples.


MOST CHILDISH AND CHARMING.I found the house, and asked for Miss Montague. As I mounted the stairs to the drawing-room floor, I heard a sound of voices—the murmur of laughter: idiotic guffaws, suppressed giggles, the masculine and feminine varieties of tomfoolery.

'You'd make a splendid woman of business, you would!' a young man was saying. I gathered from his drawl that he belonged to that sub-species of the human race which is known as the Chappie.

'Wouldn't I just?' a girl's voice answered, tittering. I recognised it as Sissie's. 'You ought to see me at it! Why, my brother set up a place once for mending bicycles; and I used to stand about at the door, as if I had just

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