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"Twice When I found you were not there I went on to the club," he replied, with his usual air of boredom "When do you expect your don to-morrow to stay with the Fishers"

"Oh! by the way," he remarked suddenly "Tubby Hall, who is just back froht that he'd seen your friend Henfrey in a restaurant there with a pretty French girl"

"In Madrid!" echoed Dorise, for she had no idea of her lover's whereabouts "He must have been mistaken surely"

"No Tubby is an old friend of Henfrey's He says that he and the girl seeood friends"

Dorise hesitated

"You tell me this in order to cause me annoyance!" she exclaimed

"Not at all I've only told you what Tubby said"

"Did your friend speak to Mr Henfrey?"

"I think not But I really didn't inquire," Sherrard replied, not failing, however, to note how puzzled she was

Lady Ranscoirl's affection for the absconding Henfrey would, sooner or later, fade out More than once he and she had held consultation concerning the proposed e, andfroirl's heart But herthat in the end he would obtain his desire

Sherrard, however, little dreah, and how deeply she regretted having written that hasty letter to Shapley

Yet one of Hugh's friends had met him in Madrid in coirl!

What was the secret of it all? Was Hugh really guilty of the attempt upon the notorious Madee like a hts when, an hour later, her ton to lunch with her old school friend as on the point of being reat distinction in the Air Force, and whose portrait was alh, she wondered, as she sat gazing blankly out upon the London traffic She would write to hioing, nor his address

And a telephone e to Mr Peters's house had been answered to the effect that the loved was abroad, and the date of his return uncertain