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THE TWO DESTINIES

by Wilkie Collins




The Prelude.

THE GUEST WRITES AND TELLS THE STORY OF THE DINNER PARTY.

MANY years have passed since my wife and I left the United States
to pay our first visit to England.

We were provided with letters of introduction, as a matter of
course. Among them there was a letter which had been written for