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Butlin & Forbes, the well-known solicitors, and remained there half an hour. When he emerged from the old house, he looked, if possible, more harried and cast down than when he had entered it. They had had a letter to show him, but in his opinion it contributed nothing. There was no hope and no clue! How could there be?
Hôtel Bristol, Rome till the end of the week? if I only could be sure that was what Butlin said! He paced up and down, frowning, in an impotent distress, trying to make his brain work as usual. On his visit of the afternoon he had asked the lawyers for the Findon's address; but his memory now was of the worst.
You're dreadfully bad about money, John! The echo of that voice in his ears made him restless. He rose and set forth again toward Fitzroy Square. On the way his thoughts recurred to the letter he had found waiting for him at the lawyer's. It came from Phoebe's cousin, Freddy Tolson. Messrs. Butlin had traced this man anew to a mining town in New South Wales.
"The sensation of finding myself among screaming shells was all new to me," says Corporal Butlin, Lancashire Fusiliers, "but after the first terrible moments, which were enough to unnerve anybody, I became used to the situation. Afterwards the din had no effect upon me." And describing an artillery duel a gunner declares: "It was butcher's work.
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