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"Ah! You still have great faith in hirinned

"Yes, Mr Sherrard I still have faith in Mr Henfrey I know hih to be certain that he is no assassin"

"Then I ask you, Dorise, why is he hiding?" said her companion "If he is innocent, what can he fear?"

"I know he is innocent"

"Of course You uilty"

"You already condeht do you do this, I ask?"

"Well, common sense shows that he is in fear lest the truth should coht," was Sherrard's lame reply "He escaped very cleverly from Monte Carlo the moment he heard that the police suspected him, but where is he now? Nobody knows Haynes, of Scotland Yard, who made the inquiries when my flat in Park Lane was broken into, tells me they have had a description of hieneral hue-and-cry has been circulated"

"But the woman is still alive, is she not?"

"Yes She's a hopeless idiot, Haynes tells me She had developed homicidal mania as a result of the bullet wound in the head, and they have had to send her to a private asylum at Cannes She's there in close confineer had risen, and her cheeks were flushed The sandwich she was eating choked her, so she cast it into the river

Then she rose abruptly, and looking very straight into the man's eyes, said: "I consider, Mr Sherrard, that you are absolutely horrid Mr Henfrey is a friend ofhim I will not believe until I hear his story from his own lips"

"I merely tell you of the report from France to Scotland Yard," said Sherrard

"You tell h--to--to----"

"Hugh! Whom you love--eh?" sneered Sherrard

"Yes I do love hiirl blurted forth "I make no secret of it And if you like you can tellas her factoturetted, Dorise, that you have fallen in love with a felloho is wanted by the police," he reenuine man," she retorted with bitter sarcasm "I know my mother's intention is that I shall marry you But I tell you here frankly--as I stand here--I would rather kill e Sherrard with his dark bushy brows and thick lips only laughed at her indignation This incensed her the more