Chapter 32 A DESPERATE VENTURE

I have set my life upon a cast.

And I will stand the hazard of the die.-Shakespeare.

It was yet so early in the morning that they drove ten miles out to a small village on the road before they thought of breakfast. There Mr. Berners reminded the officer in charge that Sybil had not yet broken her fast. Whereupon Purley drew up before the one

            
            

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