The Illustrious Prince by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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she remarked. "You see, I have to get a reputation for being
smart and saying bright things, or nobody would ask me anywhere. Penniless American young women are not too popular over here." "Marry me, then," he suggested amiably. "I shall have plenty of money some day." "I'll see about it when you're grown up," she answered. "Just at present, I think we'd better return to the subject of Hamilton Fynes." Mr. Richard Vanderpole sighed, but seemed not disinclined to follow her suggestion. "Harvey is a silent man, as you know," he said thoughtfully, "and he keeps everything of importance to himself. At the same time these little matters get about in the shop, of course, and I have never heard of any despatches being brought across from Washington except in the usual way. Presuming that you are right," he added after a moment's pause, "and that this fellow Hamilton Fynes really had something for us, that would account for his being able to get off the boat and securing his special train so easily. No one can imagine where he got the pull." "It accounts, also," Penelope remarked, "for his murder!" Her companion started. "You haven't any idea--" he began. |
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