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"I'm a trifle dazzled myself Bates has tapped a new

cellar soood housekeeper,

to speak truthfully There are times when I

hate the house; when it seems wholly ridiculous, the

whiain I'm actually

afraid that I like its seclusion"

"Your seclusion is better than mine You know my

little two-room affair behind the chapel,-only a few,

books and a punching bag That chapel also is one of

your grandfather's whims He provided that all the

offices of the church must be said there daily or the

endowment is stopped Mr Glenarm lived in the past,

or liked to think he did I suppose you know-or maybe

you don't kno I came to have this appointment?"

"Indeed, I should like to know"

We had reached the soup, and Bates was changing

our plates with his accustoht hand

"It was my name that did the business,-Paul A

bishop had recoh naine would appeal to Mr Glenarht too easily be cut

down to Ethel, a name which, he said, was very distasteful