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THE AUTHOR OF "TRIXIE"
but poetry, the critics were quite unfamiliar with his prose style. Dunkle would be accepted without question as the author of what the hand of Roach had written.
The youth, moreover, was poor. That is to say, pliable. That is to say, purchasable.
The Archdeacon supposed that he would be able to come to terms with him for a matter of fifty pounds, or a hundred at the outside.
"I'll put it to the fellow," he decided, "to-day, after luncheon, or if, by any chance, he's not in to luncheon, to-night, after dinner."
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Dunkle dropped in to luncheon, and he was the only young man to do so. Thus the opportunity which the Archdeacon
