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Tim?'
'It might be Uncle Tim,' insisted Pitman, 'and if it were, and I
neglected the occasion, how could I ever took my children in the face? I
do not refer to Mrs Pitman. . .'
'No, you never do,' said Michael.
'. . . but in the case of her own brother returning from Ballarat. . .'
continued Pitman.
'. . . with his mind unhinged,' put in the lawyer.
'. . . returning from Ballarat with a large fortune, her impatience may
be more easily imagined than described,' concluded Pitman.
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All right,' said Michael, 'be it so. And what do you propose to do?'
I am going to Waterloo,' said Pitman, 'in disguise.'
All by your little self?' enquired the lawyer. 'Well, I hope you think
it safe. Mind and send me word from the police cells.'
'
O, Mr Finsbury, I had ventured to hope--perhaps you might be induced
to--to make one of us,' faltered Pitman.
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