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CHAPTER XIX.
Meantime the earl and Hawkins were holding a troubled and anxious private
consultation. The earl said:
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The mystery that bothers me, is, where did It get its other arm?"
Yes--it worries me, too. And another thing troubles me--the apparition
is English. How do you account for that, Colonel?"
"Honestly, I don't know, Hawkins, I don't really know. It is very
confusing and awful."
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Don't you think maybe we've waked up the wrong one?"
The wrong one? How do you account for the clothes?"
The clothes are right, there's no getting around it. What are we going
to do? We can't collect, as I see. The reward is for a one-armed
American. This is a two-armed Englishman."
"
Well, it may be that that is not objectionable. You see it isn't less
than is called for, it is more, and so,--"
But he saw that this argument was weak, and dropped it. The friends sat
brooding over their perplexities some time in silence. Finally the
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