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The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer, available in Auren as a public-domain ebook in the United States.
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From across the common a clock sounded the half-hour.
“Ten-thirty!” I said. “A late visitor. Show him up, if you please.”
I pushed my writing aside and tilted the lampshade, as footsteps sounded on the landing. The next moment I had jumped to my feet, for a tall, lean man, with his square-cut, clean-shaven face sunbaked to the hue of coffee, entered and extended both hands, with a cry:
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