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"I alar own on that account," laughed Don Carlos

"I aht have happened if I had left htful expression, but avoiding

Don Carlos's eyes "I feel half-inclined to leave it unlocked and

unbolted to-night and risk the consequences"

Again, however, she was careful to bolt and lock her bedrooain she sat up in bed, as on the previous

night, waiting and watching And again, in the early hours of the

, she saw the door handle turn, and she trilled out a laugh,

hoping that the would-be "burglar" would hear it

She continued to exercise her impish arts of tantalisation and her

wiles of fascination on Don Carlos during the remainder of her stay at

Auchinleven Sometimes she would seem, metaphorically, to throw

herself at his head and appear to be eager to surrender herself, at

other tinore him, and make open love to Tony

in his presence As ti the