CHAPTER II
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He had not thought about it very long before he had come to the conclusion that young Bisham Dunkle was his man.
This Dunkle was one of the numerous young gentlemen who came to the rich Archdeacon's house in order to converse with his daughters. He came oftener than anybody else, for he was a prime favourite with the ladies of the household. It seemed, indeed, to the Archdeacon that Dunkle must take all his meals at the Vicarage.
He was a youth of astonishing, though
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