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WAYLAID BY WIRELESS
CHAPTER I
THE SUSPICION
"So it still keeps on?"
"Certainly it has occurred here again."
"But this must make the third time, now, within five days!"
"Rather the twelfth, I should say," the Englishman exacted sternly after a moment's computation, "within the past three weeks—within twenty days, indeed, I make it."
"Yes." The American accepted the correction easily, though he looked up from his breakfast chop with surprise. "Of course I meant that this is now the third time it has happened in the same town with us."
"And twice, indeed, in the same inn."
"Yes."
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