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That was several o And now Molly Maxwell the adventuress in Paris had been transforhly respectableMrs Bond, who having presented such excellent references had become tenant of that well-furnishedFor nearly two centuries it had been the hoe Puttenham, Baronet, the present owner, had found himself ruined by war-taxation, and as one of the new poor he had been glad to let the place and live upon the rent obtained for it His case, indeed, was only one of thousands of others in England, where adventurers and war-profiteers were ousting the landed gentry

"Yvonne is evidently keeping a good watch upon young Hugh," rearette s

"Yes," replied the wolorious view of Gibbet Hill, at Hindhead, and the blue South Downs towards the English Channel But all was dark and lowering in the winter twilight, now fast darkening into night

In old-world Guildford, the county town of Surrey, with its steep High Street containing many seventeenth-century houses, its old inns, and its balconied Guildhall--the scene of sothe robed and cocked-hatted borough councillors who are, par excellence, outstanding illustrations of the provincial petty jealousies of bumbledom--Mrs Bond elcomed by the trades-people who vied with each other to "serve her" Alh Street in her fine Rolls-Royce driven by Mead, an ex-soldier and a worthy fellohoh an advertisement in the Surrey Advertiser He had been in the Queen's West Surrey, and his ho in Guildford, Molly knew that he would serve as a testih respectability Molly Maxas an outstandingly clever woht be taken advantageously

Mead, ent on his "push-bike" every evening along the Hog's Back to Guildford, was never tired of singing the praises of his generous ood sort," he would tell his friends in the bar of the Lion or the Angel "She kno to treat aI suppose she'll ain Nearly all the best people about here have called on her within the last week or two Magistrates and their wives, retired generals, and lots of the gentry Yes, my job isn't to be sneezed at, I can tell you It's better than driving a lorry outside Ypres!"

Mrs Bond treated Mead extre she would secure a good advertiseo she had lived at Keswick