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Received 7.51. "From Robert Maitland to Miss Marlett. "The Dovecot, Conisbeare, "Tiverton. "I come to-morrow, leaving by 10.30 train. Do not let Margaret see the newspaper. Her father dead. Break news." "Why, that is my own telegram!" cried Maitland; "but what have you done with the other you said you received?"
"From Robert Maitland to Miss Marlett. "The Dovecot, Conisbeare, "Tiverton. "I come to-morrow, leaving by 10.30 train. Do not let Margaret see newspaper. Her father dead. Break news." This telegram gave Maitland, in his excited state, more trouble to construct than might have been expected.
Miss Marlett's Establishment for the Highest Education of Girls, more briefly known as "The Dovecot, Conisbeare," was no exception, on a particularly cold February day the day after Dicky Shields was found dead to these pretty general rules. The Dovecot, before it became a girls' school, was, no doubt, a pleasant English home, where "the fires wass coot," as the Highlandman said.
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