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"If you can't lie better than that you needn't try

again Face about now, and y into my tone, and he turned and

walked before me down the corridor in the direction

from which he had coedly beforeat

his heels with his lantern and my pistol The situation

had played prettily into my hands, and I had every intention

of wresting from him the reason for his interest

in Glenarm House and my affairs

"Not so fast," I adly

He was no coue; I felt the quality in him

with a certain admiration for his scoundrelly talents-

a fellow, I reflected, as best studied at the point

of a pistol

I continued at his heels, and poked the ainst his back from time to time to keep hiret a

second later

We were about ten yards fro himself backward upon me, threw his

ar

hiers clasped my throat