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Updated: May 10, 2025
She looked past him at the lamp which hung, blue and forbidding, over the station door. 'How long'll I get? she said. 'What will they give me? Thirty days? He nodded. 'It won't take me as long as that, she said. 'I say, what do people call you? people who are fond of you, I mean? Eddie or Ted? Mr Meggs's mind was made up. He was going to commit suicide.
Gradually, therefore, as the chase warmed up, citizens of all shapes and sizes began to assemble. Miss Pillenger's screams and the general appearance of Mr Meggs gave food for thought. Having brooded over the situation, they decided at length to take a hand, with the result that as Mr Meggs's grasp fell upon Miss Pillenger the grasp of several of his fellow-townsmen fell upon him.
She addressed herself to it with all the strength of her powerful mind. In London, New York, Paris, and other cities where life is brisk, the spectacle of a hatless gentleman with a purple face pursuing his secretary through the streets at a rapid gallop would, of course, have excited little, if any, remark. But in Mr Meggs's home-town events were of rarer occurrence.
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