Dear Duchess,
I regret I am called away on urgent political business....
Yours faithfully
J. Perkins....
He took the morocco leather case out of his pocket and enclosed it, with the note, in a large envelope.
Then he pressed the electric button by his bedside, almost feeling that this was a signal for the Dawn to rise without more ado....
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Published by the Young Self-Helpers' Press, Ipswich.
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"Are We Going Too Fast?"
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"A Midwife For The Millennium." H.G. W*lls.
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"How To Be Happy Though Yet Unborn." H.G. W*lls.
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"Words About Words." By Ezra K. Higgins, Professor of Etymology, Abraham Z. Stubbins University, Padua, Pa., U.S.A. (2 vols.).
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"Id est"—"That is."