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"A telegram for you, sir," said one of the clerks to Laurence Wynne, the following morning. Telegrams were a common arrival; but instinctively he felt that there was something unusual about this one, as he tore it open and glanced over it.
"My father is dangerously ill. Impossible to fulfil promise. Writing."