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Updated: July 29, 2025
Garton asked, "and what you have been doing since you left the city?" "Tell her about your wrestling bout with Jake Jukes," Garton suggested, "and the widow and her news-bag of a son, and also about the old shoemaker and his wayward daughter. Yes, and about the old professor and his daughters." "You have given me a big contract," Douglas laughingly replied. "I know I have, but Kit must hear it."
"One would say I flattered myself by thinking that I had been born a detective!" he remarked aloud to his favourite rose-bush, when Luciola had emptied her news-bag for him, in the garden. "Me, a detective? Heaven forbid! Yet at the same time, if I have brain-power to be of service to my Principino, the saints give me wit to use it."
It had been bought by a retired naval officer, who lived in it with his wife the only Englishwoman in the place, until the arrival, at The Boar's Head, of the lady so much admired by Dooble Sanny. Robert was up-stairs when Betty emptied her news-bag, and so heard nothing of this bit of gossip.
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