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It was a long time since he had heard from there, and he was beginning to wonder if anything had happened, when Peter brought him an odd-looking letter, directed wrong side up, written with a pencil, and having about it a faint perfume of very bad tobacco. It was addressed to "Mr. Kurnal Krompton, Troutberg, Mass."
"Nobody will know if I read it, and I shall hold my tongue, as usual," he thought, his curiosity at last overcoming his sense of honor. Opening the envelope, he took out the piece of foolscap, on which was neither date nor name of place. "Kurnal Krompton," it began. "Yer fren' in Palatky done gone to Europe.
Peter was accustomed to hearing of his master's debts in that direction, and to being told to hold his tongue, and he answered, "All right, sir," and left the room. For some moments the Colonel sat perfectly still, his heart beating so fast that he could scarcely breathe. Then he opened Jake's letter, and read as follows: "Palmetto Clarin', Oct. , 18 . "Mister Kurnel Krompton,
In the same mail which had brought Eloise's letter from California there had been one for him, which in the morning Peter had taken from the postman and examined carefully, until he made out its direction. "Mister Kurnel Krompton, of Krompton Plais, Krompton, Massachusetts."
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