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"I wonder what that nice-looking beggar really means, and who he happens to be? " That was what I said to myself when I returned to the laboratory. "If it is true that, now and again, Providence does write a man's character on his face, then there can't be the slightest shred of a doubt that a curious one's been written on his. I wonder what his connection has been with the Apostle -- or if it's only part of his game of bluff."
I strode up and down -- for the moment my interest in the experiments I was conducting had waned.