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"Well, the next time he calls, you send him in to see me," directed Mr. Tutt. "What was the present lady's name?" "Woodcock," answered Tutt. "Alvina Woodcock." "And she wanted to change to Higgleby?" muttered his partner. "I wonder why." "Oh, there's something sort of appealing about him," acknowledged Tutt. "But he don't look like a bigamist," he concluded.
Speak, dog! when got'st thou this?" Alvina was about to speak, and acknowledge that she had bestowed it; but before she could utter a syllable, the page exclaimed, "I confess all I stole it." "Enough!" cried the count. "Daughter, retire to your apartment." "Father!" cried the wretched girl, wringing her hands. "Silence, countess!" cried the count, with terrific emphasis.
Then rose at the call of justice, militantly and with a curious air of proprietorship in the overmarried defendant, the wife or maiden who in earlier days had answered to the name of Alvina Woodcock.
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