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widely shared; he undertook to deliver us at the magistrate’s court at ten next morning, and then led us away. His car was outside. ‘It’s no use discussing things tonight. Where are you sleeping.?’
‘Marchers, ‘ said Sebastian.
‘You’d better come to me. I can fix you up for tonight. Leave everything to me.’
It was plain that he rejoiced in his efficiency.
Next morning the display was even more impressive. I awoke with the startled and puzzled sense of being in a strange room, and in the first seconds of consciousness the memory of the evening before returned, first as though of a nightmare, then of reality. Rex’s valet was unpacking a suitcase. On seeing
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