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The Strand Magazine.
the fair. Pity he did not get the chance. He'd have nailed him. Everyone says that Markson has made an awful mull of it, and now the fellow has got clean away, no one knows where. Who's the best man now? You can't say much for your side, Tom."
As I watched him stride away towards the park, I thought: "Yes, but thank God, Smollett did not get the chance."
