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Jones, Charles Burnaby.

Waking in a Paris hotel with a badly blistered chest, he discovered that a mustard plaster had been placed on it during the night. Mrs. Brown confessed that she had mistaken him for her husband, who had a had cold. Greatly to everyone's surprise, they later met at Thompson Hall where they were all to spend Christmas, and Mr. Jones was introduced as the fiance of Mrs. Brown's sister Jane Thompson

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