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With a wild desire to do somebody an injury, Stott was led away. The blow had fallen upon him with crushing and unexpected force, and for the present he could see no way out of it.
And just now he was far too angry for any consecutive mental effort. He had been tricked and foiled in some way, but even his astuteness failed to show him how.