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She had, she remembered, addressed the envelope to Mr Godfrey Brown, at the Poste Restante in Brussels

Was it possible that the torn fragments had fallen into the hands of the police? She knew that they had been watching her closely Her surier had eive him the contents of Dorise's waste-paper basket froained

"Are you actually going to Malines?" asked Dorise of the girl

"Yes As yourto-night If you care to write him a letter, I will deliver it"

"Will you come with me over to the Eested, still entirely reed, and they left the tea-shop and walked together to the well-known ladies' club, where, while the er sipped tea, Dorise sat down and wrote a long and affectionate letter to her lover, urging hiet back to London as soon as he could

When she had finished it, she placed it in an envelope

"I would not address it," reive it into his hand"

And tenDorise to reflect over the curious encounter

So Hugh was in Malines She went to the telephone, rang up Walter Brock, and told hi news

"In Malines?" he cried over the wire "I wonder if I dare go there to see him? What a dead-alive hole!"

Not until then did Dorise recollect that the girl had not given her Hugh's address She had, perhaps, purposely withheld it

This fact she told Hugh's friend, who replied over the wire: "Well, it is highly satisfactory news, in any case We can only wait, Miss Ranscomb But this must relieve your mind, I feel sure"

"Yes, it does," ad off

That evening Il Passero's chicshe called at Madame Maupoil's, in Malines, where she delivered Dorise's note into Hugh's own hand She was an expert and hardened traveller

Hugh eagerly devoured its contents, for it was the first coht at Monte Carlo Then, having thanked the girl again, and again, the latter said: "If you wish to write back to Miss Ransco to Cologne to-night I will post it on my arrival"