| No. 160 Fulton Street, |
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| Room No. 11, NEW YORK. |
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| HENRY L. STEPHENS, |
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| ARTIST, |
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| No. 160 FULTON STREET, |
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| NEW YORK. |
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THE MYSTERY OF MR. E. DROOD.

AN ADAPTATION.

BY ORPHEUS C. KERR.

CHAPTER XXIV.

MR. CLEWS AT HIS NOVEL.[1]

Thrown into Rembrandtish relief by the light of a garish kerosene lamp
upon the table: with one discouraged lock of hair hanging over his nose,
and straw hat pushed so far back from his phrenological brow that its
vast rim had the fine artistic effect of a huge saintly nimbus: Mr.