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V

CHAPTER V.

MRS. HALLER AT HOME.

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ITHOUT slackening his
pace Pen galloped on
to Baymouth, put the
mare up at the inn sta-
bles, and ran straight-
way to Mr. Foker's lodg-
ings, of whom he had
taken the direction on
the previous day. On
reaching these apart-
ments, which were over
a chemist's shop whose
stock of cigars and soda-
water went off rapidly
by the kind patronage
of his young inmates,
Pen only found Mr.
Spavin, Foker's friend,
and part owner of the
tandem, which the lat-
ter had driven into
Chatteris, who was

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smoking, and teaching a little dog, a friend of his, tricks with
a bit of biscuit.

Pen's healthy red face, fresh from the gallop, compared
oddly with the waxy debauched little features of Foker's chum;
Mr. Spavin remarked the circumstance. "Who's that man?"

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