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Transcriber's note:

The printed version of this book had two Chapter V's. Rather than renumber all the subsequent chapters in the book, I numbered the first "V" to "V (a)" and the second one to "V (b)".









"Then why can't you marry me?"

[Frontispiece: "Then why can't you marry me?"]



Supertales of

MODERN MYSTERY


By Arthur Stringer



NEVER-FAIL BLAKE




McKINLAY, STONE & MACKENZIE
NEW YORK




COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY






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