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" 'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said l; 'my time is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the words came to my lips.
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" 'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked.
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" 'Most admirably.'
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" 'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as that?'
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" 'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.'
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" 'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last train.'
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" 'Where to?'
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" 'To Eyford, in Berkshire.
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