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PREFACE
The picture of West Street, Midhurst, is an illustration to both these stories, for it was Midhurst Grammar School that the author had in mind as Mr. Lewisham's school and Mr. Lewisham, like the author, lodged over the small sweetstuff-shop in West Street next to the Angel, to which inn came Mr. Hoopdriver with mysterious inquiries in protective pursuit of the young lady in grey.
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