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The Paradise Mystery by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
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"However long he'd been out of England he hadn't lost a
North-Country accent! He was some sort of a North-Countryman
--Yorkshire or Lancashire, I'll go bail. No Frenchman,
officer--not he!"

"Well, there's no papers here, anyway," said Mitchington, who
had now emptied the suit-case. "Nothing to show who he was.
Nothing here, you see, in the way of paper but this old
book--what is it--History of Barthorpe."

"He showed me that in the train," remarked Mr. Dellingham.
"I'm interested in antiquities and archaeology, and anybody
who's long in my society finds it out. We got talking of such
things, and he pulled out that book, and told me with great
pride, that he'd picked it up from a book-barrow in the
street, somewhere in London, for one-and-six. I think," he
added musingly, "that what attracted him in it was the old
calf binding and the steel frontispiece--I'm sure he'd no
great knowledge of antiquities."

Mitchington laid the book down, and Bryce picked it up,
examined the title-page, and made a mental note of the fact
that Barthorpe was a market-town in the Midlands. And it was
on the tip of his tongue to say that if the dead man had no
particular interest in antiquities and archaeology, it was
somewhat strange that he should have bought a book which was
mainly antiquarian, and that it might be that he had so bought
it because of a connection between Barthorpe and himself. But
he remembered that it was his own policy to keep pertinent
facts for his own private consideration, so he said nothing.
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