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The girl was in conorance of the truth She never dreahly suspicious, or that the constant travelling was in order to evade the police

As she was driven along, she sat back reflecting Truth to tell, she was h Benton had first introduced hih, and after that they had ain in London, and once in Paris Yet while she, on her part, became filled with admiration, he was, apparently, quite unconscious of it

At last she had heard of Hugh's infatuation for Dorise Ranscoineer who had recently died, and indeed she had met her once and been introduced to her

Of the conditions of old Mr Henfrey's will she was, of course, in ignorance The girl had no idea of the great plot which had been formed by her foster father and his clever fee one beneath the surface of things Those who passed the ilish manor-house never dreamed that it sheltered one of the most notorious feistrates and their wives who visited her would have received a rude shock had they but known But hty Madaination were "The Humbert Millions," used to entertain Ministers of State, aristocrats, financiers, and others of lower degree, and show them the sealed-up safe in which she declared reposed ht not see the light of day until a certain date The avaricious, even shrewd, bankers advanced loans upon things they had never seen, and the Huht-after family in Paris until the bubble burst and they fled and were afterwards arrested in Spain

Molly Maxas aelusiveness Louise, young and unsuspicious, looked upon her as a rateful to him for all he did for her She understood that they were cousins, and that Benton advised Mrs Maxwell in her disastrous matri school had been a truly adventurous one She had been in half the watering places of Europe, and in , with the woant life at hotels of the first order

The car at last ran into the station yard at Guildford, and at the bookstall Louise exchanged her books with the courteous er