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For an instant Denton sat stunned. Then he stood up and groaned aloud.
He made a strange gesture of appeal towards the remote glass roof of the
public way, then turned and went plunging recklessly from one moving
platform to another, and vanished amidst the swarms of people going to
and fro thereon. The chaperone's eyes followed him, and then she looked
at the curious faces about her.
"Dear," asked Elizabeth, clasping her hand, and too deeply moved to heed
observation, "who was that man? Who was that man?"
The chaperone raised her eyebrows. She spoke in a clear, audible voice.
"
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Some half-witted creature. I have never set eyes on him before."
Never?"
Never, dear. Do not trouble your mind about a thing like this."
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And soon after this the celebrated hypnotist who dressed in green and
yellow had another client. The young man paced his consulting-room, pale
and disordered. "I want to forget," he cried. "I must forget."
The hypnotist watched him with quiet eyes, studied his face and clothes
and bearing. "To forget anything--pleasure or pain--is to be, by so
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