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LOVE AT PADDINGTON


by

W. PETT RIDGE







[Frontispiece]




Thomas Nelson and Sons
London, Edinburgh, Dublin
Leeds, Melbourne, and New York
Leipzig: 35-37 Koenigstrasse.  Paris: 189, rue Saint-Jacques




NOVELS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

  Mord Em'ly.
  Secretary to Bayne, M.P.
  A Son of the State.
  Lost Property.
  'Erb.
  A Breaker of Laws.
  Mrs. Galer's Business.
  The Wickhamses.
  Name of Garland.
  Sixty-nine Birnam Road.
  Splendid Brother.
  Thanks to Sanderson.




First Published in 1912




LOVE AT PADDINGTON.


CHAPTER I.

Children had been sent off to Sunday school, and the more conscientious
reached that destination; going in, after delivering awful threats and
warnings to those who preferred freedom of thought and a stroll down
Edgware Road in the direction of the Park.  As a consequence, in the
streets off the main thoroughfare leading to Paddington Station peace
and silence existed, broken only by folk who, after the principal meal
of the week, talked in their sleep.