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have followed some of them, on Broadway Perhaps you have seen a play of

mine announced for early production in London There was raland The project has been abandoned now and I aranted e of those seven

letters you played into s for mystery and

romance Then, by the Lord Harry, she shall have them!

And it was the tramp of Captain Fraser-Freer's boots above my head that

showed me the way A fine, stalwart, cordial fellow--the captain--who

has been very kind to me since I presented ht Poor Archie! A meek, correct little

soul, ould be horrified beyond expression if he knew that of him I

had s of the plot were inthat all was not regular in the matter of Archie's

note of introduction Before I wrotebut

the death of Fraser-Freer would do me I recalled that Indian knife I

had seen upon his desk, and from that moment he was doomed At that

time I had no idea how I should solve the e ure in the sches