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THE CLUE OF THE TWISTED CANDLE

"It sounds rum, doesn't it, but that's just what he wants to do."

"Why is he doing it?" she asked.

T. X. made a gesture of despair.

"That is one of the mysteries which may never be revealed to me, except—" he pursed his lips and looked thoughtfully at the girl. "There are times," he said, "when there is a great struggle going on inside a man between all the human and better part of him and the baser professional part of him. One side of me wants to hear this lecture of John Lexman's very much, the other shrinks from the ordeal."

"Let us talk it over at lunch," she said practically, and carried him off.

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