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CHAPTER XII
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ThE Archdeacon arrived for luncheon am in good time and better temper. He made no sort of doubt that this was the last day of his sojourn in the purgatory of non-recognition. In his pocket were a number of copies of a letter which he proposed to send, signed by Dunkle and himself, to the Editors of The Times, The Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Westminster Gazette, and some fifty more periodicals of daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly appearance. It read as follows:

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