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last resort, isn't he?"

"Well, of course, that's one way of looking at it,

sir

"I suppose there's no chance of Mr Pickering's dropping

in on us now and then"

He gazed at ly and with entire

respect

"He's a good deal of a traveler, Mr Pickering is He

passed through only this , so the mail-boy told

me You may have met him at the station"

"Oh, yes; to be sure; so I did I" I replied I was not

as good a liar as Bates; and there was nothing to be

gained by denying that I had e "I had a very pleasant talk with him He was

on the way to California with several friends"

"That is quite his way, I understand,-private cars

and long journeys about the country A very successful

reat

confidence in hie of character uess John Marshall Glenarm could spot a rascal

about as far as any o before thiswonder

toI had ever known I had been torn with a

thousand conflicting e

the state of affairs at Glenar's acquaintance

with the girl in gray brought new elements

into the affair that added toon whom the stress of conspiracy

had no outward effect whatever