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Even in thedark he knew the whereabouts of the numerous cesspoolswhich would trap,many a gin-soaked hag, or drunkardwho'd lost Hannah crossed the causeway and stopped at a hoardingwhere a man was busy pasting up a poster forMadame Tussaud's Travelling Waxworks. The Ikey of old would have long since| sensed the approach. |iieavy mist lay over the water as Mary stood on theare waiting for a lad she knew only as Tom.

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