"I did not go to bed at all that night, but sat upon the edge, thinking, and waiting for the dawn; for I had to remove my litter before Sir Alfred Jarnock should enter, if I were to hide from him the fact that I had managed a duplicate key.

" "Answer me this," said I: "Did no one know the duplicate card you used in the cheat?

Duplicate adultery is that of a husband with another's wife, or of a wife with another's husband.

"And you, of course, carried your jewel-caseor what you believed to be your jewel-casethe duplicate chest which you subsequently carried to Edinburgh?" "Yes, of courseI had it in my hand when Lisette left, and, I never left hold of it until I got into the hotel.

Trooper Burgess, a comrademy former valetcarries a duplicate memorandum.

Presently he returned with a receipted duplicate deposit slip for twenty-four thousand eight hundred dollars, a little, flat check book and two hundred dollars in worn bank notes.

It is quite clear that all this is an expression of dissatisfaction with the old belief in the simple duplicate world, the world of Earu under the earth.