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"Yes, Mr Glenar me attentively

His lips quavered, perhaps from weakness, for

he certainly looked ill

"Now I offer you your choice,-either to stand loyally

by randfather's house or to join these

scoundrels Arthur Pickering has hired to driveto bribe you,-I don't offer you a cent for

standing by me, but I won't have a traitor in the house,

and if you don't like htened quickly,-his eyes lighted and the

color crept into his face I had never before seen hi

"Mr Glenarm, you have been hard on me; there have

been times when you have been very unjust-"

"Unjust,-my God, what do you expect ue with Pickering? I'm not as dull as I look, and

after your intervieith Pickering in the chapel porch

you can't convince me that you were faithful to azed atthe chapel porch interview at this

time, but it leaped out of an brokenly, "that I can hardly

persuade you that Ion that occasion"

"You certainly can not,-and it's safer for you not

to try But I'o as a reward

for your work last night Make your choice now; stay

here and stop your spying or clear out of Annandale