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CORONATION DAY.
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"There is nought in this riddle that is difficult." Then, without so much as a by-your-leave to anybody, he turned and gave this command,
"THE GREAT SEAL—FETCH IT HITHER." with the easy manner of one accustomed to doing such things: "My lord St. John, go you to my private cabinet in the palace—for none knoweth the place better than you—and, close down to the floor, in the left corner remotest from the door that opens from the ante-chamber, you shall find in the wall a brazen nail-head; press upon it and a little jewel-closet will fly open which
