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Such a coh had never paid to her The recollection of it stung her

She wondered what sort of woman was the person naoing to Farnhairl he adht return with her

Her only fear was lest he should be arrested If his place of concealment were spoken of over a West End dinner-table, then it could not be long before detectives arrested hih had borrowed Mrs Bond's car upon a rather lame pretext, and had pulled up in the square, inartistic yard before the Bush--the old coaching house, popular before the new road over the Hog's Back was made, and when the coaches had to ascend that steep hill out of Guildford, non as The Mount For htful walk, with nificent views from the Thames Valley to the South Downs The days of the coaches have, alas! passed, and the new road, with its tangle of telegraph wires, is beloved by every h waited anxiously in the little lounge which overlooks the courtyard He went into the garden, and afterwards stood in impatience beneath the archway fro the road over which he knew Dorise n of her

Until six o'clock he waited, when, in blank despair, he ain and drove back to Shapley Manor It was curious that Dorise had not come to meet him, but he attributed it to The Sparrow's inability to convey a one out of toith her ht Or, perhaps, at the last et away

On his return to Shapley he found Louise and Mrs Bond sitting together in the charhtly

"Did you have a nice run, Hugh?" asked the girl, clasping her hands behind her head and looking up at hi

"Quite," he replied "I went around Hindhead down to Frenshah Farnhao to town," said his hostess "Alet a taxi out from Guildford He'll be back to-h," exclaimed Louise, "there was a call for you about a quarter of an hour afterwards I thought nobody knew you were down here"