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| NEW YORK. |
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| GEO. B. BOWLEND, |
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| Draughtsman & Designer |
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| No. 160 Fulton Street, |
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| Room No. 11, NEW YORK. |
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THE MYSTERY OF MR. E. DROOD.

AN ADAPTATION.

BY ORPHEUS C. KERR

CHAPTER XVIII

A SUBTLE STRANGER.

The latest transient guest at the Roach House--a hotel kept on the
entomological plan in Bumsteadville--was a gentleman of such lurid
aspect as made every beholder burn to know whom he could possibly be.
His enormous head of curled red hair not only presented a central