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George's dragon, he would never have been absurd enough to venture on such a course for the possession alone of the woman--there was no reason for it--she was inferior to Cytherea in every respect, physical and mental

On the other hand, it seemed rather odd, when he analyzed the action, that a woman who deliberately hid herself froht back by a mere advertisement In fact, the whole business had worked almost too smoothly and effectually for unpremeditated sequence It was tooat the end of an old play And there was that curious business of the keys and watch Her way of accounting for their being left behind by forgetfulness had always seemed to hiested by the newspaper writers --that she left them behind on purpose to blind people as to her escape, a motive which would have clashed with the possibility of her being fished back by an advertiseain, there were the two charred bones He shuffled the books and papers in his study, and walked about the roo on the sarove frorove?' said the rector, surprised

'Yes, sir' 'Yes, of course he can see me Tell him to come in' Edward came so impatiently into the room, as to show that the few short moments his announcement had occupied had been irkso in his hand, and the saray cloak on his shoulders, that he had worn fifteen ht of the fire This appearance of his conveyed a true inant man But he was excited now

'I have this moment come from London,' he said, as the door was closed behind hiely accompanies critical experiences, prompted Mr Raunham's reply

'About the Grayes and Manston?' 'Yes That woman is not Mrs Manston' 'Prove it' 'I can prove that she is somebody else--that her name is Anne Seaway' 'And are their suspicions true indeed!' 'And I can do what's est Manston's est it, remember But my assumption fits so perfectly with the facts that have been secretly unearthed and conveyed to me, that I can hardly conceive of another' There was in Edward's bearing that entire unconsciousness of himself which, natural to wild animals, only prevails in a sensitive man at moments of extreme intentness The rector saw that he had no trivial story to communicate, whatever the story was