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The story told me by the bald-headed Italian hotel-keeper was that another man had usurped my place!
He said that Mrs. Holford, accompanied by her husband, had arrived at about seven o'clock on the morning of the day before yesterday, remained there the day, and had left by the express for Rome at five o'clock that same evening.