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quite a wrong tack, though I knows that some of our fellows - big pots, too - are quite sure that the fellow what gave the girl the sovereign is the man we're looking for. You see, Mr. Bunting, if that's the fact - well, it stands to reason the fellow's an escaped lunatic; and if he's an escaped lunatic he's got a keeper, and they'd be raising a hue and cry after him; now, wouldn't they?"
"You don't think," went on Bunting, lowering his voice, "that he could be just staying somewhere, lodging like?"
" D'you mean that The Avenger may be a toff, staying in some West-end hotel, Mr. Bunting? Well, things almost as funny as that 'ud be have come to pass." He smiled as if the notion was a funny one.
"Yes, something o' that sort," muttered Bunting.
"Well, if your idea's correct, Mr.- Bunting - "
"I never said 'twas my idea," said Bunting, all in a hurry.
"Well, if that idea's correct then, 'twill make our task more difficult than ever. Why, 'twould be looking for a needle in a field of hay, Mr. Bunting! But there! I don't think
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