Excerpt from Under Lock and Key, Vol. 3 of 3: A Story
Now, for certain reasons which I need not detail, I do not want my presence in London to be known to any one. I am going to an hotel where I have never been before, and where I am entirely unknown. While stopping at this hotel I shall pass under the name of Mr. Stonor, a country gentleman - let us say - of limited means, who is up in town for the furtherance of some business of a legal character. Can you remember Mr. Stonor from the country 'p'
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