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Bachelor Confession Exposes Indian Poison Matrimony Plot
A club of bachelors holds a confession by Edward Hammerton who claims a foreign scheme of forced marriages via a secret Indian poison flower. He recounts isolation and social ostracism, a dramatic confrontation with a doomed suitor, and a heavy fine debated by the club, ending with mixed verdicts and a double demand for punishment.
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Bachelors’ Club
Edward Hammerton
Hammerton
India
Persia
Buncombe
Ruth
Calla Cate
Benedict