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THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS by JOHN BUCHAN

28 Oct 1993

Scanned and proofread by Kirk Robinson

Version used David R.Godine-Publisher 1990 softcover edition


Copyright 1915 by The Curtis Publishing Company

Transcription notes:

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Bold thus _b_ bold _b_

Underscore thus _u_ underscore _u_ accent
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accent circonflex thus cha^teau

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The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan



1 The Man Who Died

I returned from the City about three o'clock on that
May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had
been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up
with it. If any one had told me a year ago that I would
have been feeling like that I should have laughed at
him; but there was the fact. The weather made me
liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me
sick, I couldn't get enough exercise, and the
amusements of London seemed as flat as soda-water
that has been standing in the sun. "Richard Hannay," I
kept telling myself, "you have got into the wrong ditch,
my friend, and you had better climb out."

It made me bite my lips to think of the plans I had

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