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artful minxes, by no manner of means passed him by, - without giving them a thought! As Daisy wasn't here, he would probably keep away to-day. There was comfort in that thought, too.
And then Mrs. Bunting sat up, and memory returned in a dreadful turgid flood. If Joe did come in, she must nerve herself to hear all that - that talk there'd be about The Avenger between him and Bunting.
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She stood for a moment listening - listening, and shivering, for it was very cold. Considering how early it still was, there seemed a lot of coming and going in the Marylebone Road. She could hear the unaccustomed sounds through her closed door and the tightly fastened windows of the sitting-room. There must be a regular crowd of men and women, on foot and in cabs, hurrying to the scene of The Avenger's last extraordinary crime.
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