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MR. MARTIN SHANKS: GUARDIAN.
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CHAPTER VII.
MR. MARTIN SHANKS: GUARDIAN.
"Did you run against something?" asked Dido, as she felt Richard start.
"It's only me," said a deep bass voice, which had such an honest and harmless ring, that Richard's fear and nervousness dropped from him like a cloak.
"It's all right," Dido responded cheerfully, as she stopped and knocked on a door.
Dick knew it was a door from the sound, but he was unable to distinguish door from wall in the darkness.
It was opened by some one inside. Dick
