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The unhappy Major was only faintly more disturbed by this last and futile irrelevancy, and he answered vaguely: "Yes, I think so; a man named Gurney something a name with a hyphen Gurney-Brown; that was it." "And when did the house change hands?" said Basil, looking up sharply. His strange eyes were burning brilliantly. "I came in last month," said the Major.
Your predecessor in your present house, Mr Gurney-Brown, was a subscriber to our agency, and our foolish clerks, ignoring alike the dignity of the hyphen and the glory of military rank, positively imagined that Major Brown and Mr Gurney-Brown were the same person. Thus you were suddenly hurled into the middle of another man's story."
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