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Updated: July 4, 2025

The lid that covered the upper half of Parkins's intelligence also received a jolt; it was a coal-hole lid that covered emptiness, but now and then admitted the light. "Might 'ave known from the clothes 'e wore 'e was no common PUR-son," he said to himself. As to Jack, not only his mind but his heart were in a whirl.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero