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"And after that?"

"After that! After that! How do I knohat after that!" exclaimed Sir

Norman, rather fiercely "Orhed

"And after that you'll marry her, I suppose!"

"Perhaps I ! Only it struckanother man's wife"

"That's true!" said Sir Norman, in a subdued tone, "and if such should

unhappily be the case, nothing will remain but to live in hopes that he

ue"

"Pray Heaven that we may not be carried off by it ourselves!" said

Or but that

horrible plague-pit for a week If it were not for La Masque, I would

not stay another hour in this pest-stricken city"

"Here we are," was Sir Norman's rather inapposite answer, as they

entered Piccadilly, and stopped before a large and handsolooe lamp "Here, my man

just carry the lady in"

He unlocked the door as he spoke, and led the way across a long hall to

a sleeping chaantly fitter up The man placed the body on the

bed and departed while Sir Norht a staid-looking housekeeper to the scene directly Seeing a