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Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960

"The Red Redmaynes"

Robert Redmayne is on the war-path once more!
Of subsequent events, most are so familiar that there is no need to
retrace them. It is to be noted, however, that Robert does not
appear again to anybody but Jenny and Doria. In other words, he does
not appear again at all. His disguise is doffed--not to be resumed
until many months have passed, when once more he leaps out upon the
wild ranges of Griante. No. While alive enough and close enough to
impress both Bendigo and Brendon with his presence as described by
Jenny and myself, he has in reality vanished to the void. The
"forgery" again goes to sleep--as soundly as the real man in
Foggintor.
Accident, indeed, modified the original scheme and once more Chance
befriended us and enabled us to improve upon the first intention.
My tears fall when I think of my incomparable Jenny and her
astounding mastery of minutiae at "Crow's Nest"--her finesse and
exquisite touch, her kittenlike delicacy, her catlike swiftness and
sureness. The two beings involved were as children in her hands.


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