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Updated: May 8, 2025

"How do you know my name?" he asked. "I never saw you before." "I'm the new office-boy," said the urchin, "wishin' to be respectable and leave street-'awking, which ain't what it was. M'name's Tray, an' I've seen you afore, mister. I 'elped to pull you out from them wheels with the 'aughty gent as guv me a bob fur doin' it." "Oh, so you helped," said Paul, smiling. "Well, here is another shilling.

Fergus Hume - The Opal Serpent