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Updated: June 16, 2025
James Ramchild, a name quite unknown to me. It was very odd. A scientific colleague would surely have written for an appointment and stated the object of his visit. I looked at the card again. It was printed from script type instead of the usual engraved plate and it bore an address in Kennington Park Road. These were weighty facts and a trifle suspicious.
I seemed to scent a traveler from beyond the Atlantic; a traveler of commercial leanings. "'Show Mr. Ramchild up here, I said, and the housemaid departed, to return anon accompanied by a tall, massive man of a somewhat military aspect. "I could have laughed aloud, but I did not. It would not have been politic and it would certainly not have been polite.
"'I nodded gravely and smothered a giggle. He was a simple soul, this Ramchild. 'Concerning skeletons! What an expression for a man of science to use! An artless creature indeed! A veritable Ramchild of nature, so to speak. "'I understand, he continued, 'that you have a famous collection of er skeletons. I nodded again. Of course I had not anything of the kind.
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