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"Ah, it's Jack!" exclaiate and our light went

out"

"Miss Devereux," I murmured I have, I hope, an

icy tone for persons who have incurred my displeasure,

and I employed it then and there, with, no doubt, its

fullest value

She andin the dark for

the lost lantern, and I, putting outyour pardon," she rasped the lantern

"One ht randfather took it, but the fla the wires of

the lantern The cloak slipped away, showing her arm's

soft curve, the blue and white of her bodice, the purple

blur of violets; and for a second I saw her face, with a

s i us to leave the

lantern and go on

"Let it alone," he said "I'll go down through the

chapel; there's a lantern in there somewhere"

"I'm awfully sorry," she remarked; "but I recently

lost ry that she should so

brazenly recall the night I found her looking for Pickering's

notes in the passage at the Door of Bewilder to