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When the body of an unknown man is dragged from the river Thames, a series of complications involving the will of a wealthy man entangle the lives of several Londoners.

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XV

“What is, my dear?”

“Noddy, the faces of the old man and the two children are all over the house tonight.”

“My dear?” exclaimed Mr. Boffin. But not without a certain uncomfortable sensation gliding down his back.

“I know it must sound foolish, and yet it is so.”

“Where did you think you saw them?”

“I don’t know that I think I saw them anywhere. I felt them.”

“Touched them?”

“No. Felt them in the air. I was sorting those things on the chest, and not thinking of the old man or the children, but singing to myself, when all in a moment I felt there was a face growing out of the dark.”

“What face?” asked her husband, looking about him.

“For a moment it was the old man’s, and then

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