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delicate, Mr Glenare

in the dinner hour, sir?"

"Certainly not," I said with asperity; for I ae

it the next Bates wished to uilty conscience in a servant,-and I was

not disposed to encourage hih

exa-room and the little bed-chamber

I was quite sure that my own effects could

not have attracted the two e

of my absence to visit my quarters Bates had

helped unpack my trunk and undoubtedly knew every

item of my simple wardrobe I threw open the doors

of the three closets in the rooood order established by Bates He had carriedI

owned must have passed under his eye My money even,

the remnant of my fortune that I had drawn froh in the

drawer of a chiffonnier otherwise piled with collars It

took but a moment to satisfy myself that this had not

been touched And, to be sure, a hammer was not necessary

to open a drawer that had, froained; I had scratched the crust without result, and

edfrequently to examine the furniture,

even the bricks on the hearth