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The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson;Lloyd Osbourne
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1. But then I no longer require to bury it.


2. I have lost the tontine.

2.But I may still save that if Pitman disposes of the body, and
if I can find a physician who will stick at nothing.


3. I have lost the leather business and the rest of my uncle's
succession.

3. But not if Pitman gives the body up to the police.

'O, but in that case I go to gaol; I had forgot that,' thought Morris.
'Indeed, I don't know that I had better dwell on that hypothesis at all;
it's all very well to talk of facing the worst; but in a case of this
kind a man's first duty is to his own nerve. Is there any answer to No.
3? Is there any possible good side to such a beastly bungle? There must
be, of course, or where would be the use of this double-entry business?
And--by George, I have it!' he exclaimed; 'it's exactly the same as the
last!' And he hastily re-wrote the passage:

Bad. ---- Good.

3. I have lost the leather business and the rest of my uncle's
succession.

3. But not if I can find a physician who will stick at nothing.

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