The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns

stepped a tall and pretty young woman, dressed very smartly but soberly in dark green. On the desk in front of Denry were several wide sheets of "abstract" paper, concealed by a copy of that

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she turned back and scrutinised hi

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the footpath, and vanished; the door of the carriage banged, one of the twins in yellow leaped up to his brother, and the whole affair dashed dangerously away. The face of the leapi

e was finer even than her photographs. Entirely different from what one would have

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n that ever came into

ame to him. At five minutes past two he was in love with her. He felt profoundly thankful

ad been requested to do the same. There were thus about half-a-dozen lists to be combined into one. Denry did the combining. Nothing was easier than to insert the name of E.H. Machin inconspicuously towards the centre of the list! Nothing was easier than to lose the original lists, inadvertently, so that if a question arose