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welcome to it. You swear to confess, though?"
"I swear," said Dunkle, and he thought; "And I shouldn't wonder if I do it, too, for what an advertisement it'll be! It'll boom that successor to 'Trixie' into the second half-million in no time."
"Good," said the Archdeacon. "I'll begin it at once. It'll take me something like six months, I expect. Allow it another three to be published, and another three of sale. Then we'll confess. Is that right?"
"That's right," said Dunkle. "I said six, but three'll do. And who knows? By that time you may have been given your bishopric."
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It took the Archdeacon but three months to write the successor to "Trixie," so eagerly did he pant to begin hearing
