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After the departure of her visitors, Mrs. Gregory stood in the veranda and watched them as they sped away together the dark faded beauty, the pretty, fresh girl and said to herself: "I wonder!" The chummery to which Douglas Shafto had been introduced was a rambling old bungalow, and the edge of the Cantonment, sufficiently close to offices and work.
Comfort was constituted by the fact that, in these circumstances, there could be no immediate prospect of a break-up of the congenial chummery. "See here, Mr. Shafto, on your high horse, if you promise not to trail your coat and frighten me, I'll tell you something that will interest you. I know you have been poking round with Roscoe and diving into queer places are you as keen as ever?"
My eldest brother was in Calcutta at the time, in command of a vessel called the Vespasian. He had been spending the previous night at my chummery at Ballygunge, and when he went the next morning to get on board his ship she was nowhere to be seen.
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