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The sitting-room was typical of its kind. On the mantelpiece was a box of the peculiar confetti, flanked by a photograph of a pretty dark woman with a peculiar comb in her hair. Burles gave a searching glance at the picture. He suggested carelessly that it was very like La Belle Atalanta, to which the landlady replied that it was. Burles smiled at the success of his question. A heap of unopened letters were stuck in the flyblown overmantel, and these Burles proceeded to read. One of them especially took his attention. It was headed 14, Vernon-terrace, and was dated two days before. It was short and to the point.
"Dearest Belle," it ran,