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"What a funny name!" said Bunting wonderingly.
And then Joe broke in: "That's the name of a French chap what wrote detective stories," he said. "Pretty good, some of them are, too!"
"Then this Gaboriyou has come over to study these Avenger murders, I take it?" said Bunting.
"Oh, no," Joe spoke with confidence. "Whoever's written that silly letter just signed that name for fun."
"It is a silly letter," Mrs. Bunting had broken in resentfully. "I wonder a respectable paper prints such rubbish."
"Fancy if The Avenger did turn out to be a gentleman cried Daisy, in an awe-struck voice. "There'd be a how-to-do!"
"There may be something in the notion," said her father thoughtfully. "After all, the monster must be somewhere. This very minute he must be somewhere a-hiding of himself."
"Of course he's somewhere," said Mrs. Bunting scornfully.
She had just heard Mr. Sleuth moving overhead. 'Twould soon be time for the lodger's supper.

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晃的功夫夏天到了，赵刚手上的子弹也快见底了，枪也打坏了不少，觉得时机差不多了，就怂恿叶龄向叶志超请战。
　　“嗯？儿子，你说要去东北剿匪？”
　　叶龄唯唯诺诺的说不出话来，一旁的赵刚急忙帮着说话：
　　“小军门听说东北地方匪患严重，就想剿除匪患为提督增光。”
　　叶志超听到这话不由一愣，几十年的宦海生涯已将他变成了一个人精。自己的孩子要有这种想法，那真是太阳从西边出来了，这多半是赵刚出的鬼主意。
　　虽然知道事情的真相，叶志超却不准备揭穿赵刚的小伎俩。
　　“赵刚，你可知兵凶战危，一个不小心，就可能全军覆灭。叶龄是我的独子，没有万全之策，我岂能答应？”
　　“叶提督，小军门只需在将军帐运筹帷幄，不必亲身剿匪，与土匪交战之事，小人愿一肩承担。”
　　第二天早朝，叶志超上奏
　　“犬子闻说东北匪患猖獗，愿亲率500虎贲前往东北剿匪，还请皇太后成全。”
　　慈禧闻奏大喜亲批“将门虎子”牌匾，还将叶龄越级提拔为千总（从六品），先锋官赵刚被提拔为外委千总（正八品）。并命名这支军队为平寇军

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I come from Dr. Grant's," said Edmund presently. "You may guess my errand there, Fanny." And he looked so conscious, that Fanny could think but of one errand, which turned her too sick for speech. "I wished to engage Miss Crawford for the two first dances," was the explanation that followed, and brought Fanny to life again, enabling her, as she found she was expected to speak, to utter something like an inquiry as to the result. ¡¡¡¡ "Yes," he answered, "she is engaged to me; but" (with a smile that did not sit easy) "she says it is to be the last time that she ever will dance with me. She is not serious. I think, I hope, I am sure she is not serious; but I would rather not hear it
. She never has danced with a clergyman, she says, and she never _will_. For my own sake, I could wish there had been no ball just at--I mean not this very week, this very day; to-morrow I leave home."

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returned, as he talked of doing, at the end of three or four days, she should now have been leaving Mansfield. It became absolutely necessary for her to get to Fanny and try to learn something more. She could not live any longer in such solitary wretchedness; and she made her way to the Park, through difficulties of walking which she had deemed unconquerable a week before, for the chance of hearing a little in addition, for the sake of at least hearing his name. ¡¡¡¡ The first half-hour was lost, for Fanny and Lady Bertram were together, and unless she had Fanny to herself she could hope for nothing. But at last Lady Bertram left the room,
and then almost immediately Miss Crawford thus began, with a voice as well regulated as she could--"And how do _you_ like your cousin Edmund's staying away so long? Being the only young person at home, I consider _you_ as the greatest sufferer. You must miss him. Does his staying longer surprise you?" ¡¡¡¡ "I do not know," said Fanny hesitatingly. "Yes; I had not particularly expected it."