In Strange Company

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Guy Boothby

In Strange Company

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“Believe me, such warnings are not idle; attempts will certainly be made to obtain the money, and after careful consideration, I think I have hit upon the only safe way to guard myself against any such conspiracies.

“If by any chance no word shall reach you from me within the space of twenty-one years, day for day from this 8th of August, you may regard it as complete evidence of my death, and in that case I bequeath to your children, should you at that time have any living, or failing them to such members of my father’s family as may then be alive, the entire amount of my fortune, with all interests and accumulations which may have become added thereto.

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