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"This is far too serious a matter to be explained in a hurry, Mr. Blake.

I am not wilfully trying your patience--I should only be adding to

your suspense, if I attempted to relieve it as things are now. At

Frizinghall, sir, in two hours' time!"

The man on the high road hailed him again. He hurried away, and left me.