THE AUTHOR OF "TRIXIE"
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like to stay here and read your father out loud to me while I write him down? It would be the deuce of a help, Chloë."
"Not necessary, dear old tuft," she said. "There's no such blinking hurry as all that. If you stick to it, you'll get that pile all copied out in a fortnight or three weeks. But I'll help you when it comes to suppressing the evidence of the Archdeak's authorship. Yes, you can count on me there absolutely."
She kissed him on his parting and flitted down the hall. A moment, and the waiting Bournville was speeding with her in a westerly direction.
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A fortnight later the Archdeacon received a bundle of fifty-three press cuttings, all couched in exactly the same language. They said: "Messrs. Capper and Ironsides
