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"A sister-in-law of Mrs Craig, for on London Terrace She, however, has

no knowledge of the matter in question; nor have the Lents, nor any

one in the Craig fa"

"Who else?"

"Nobody"

"I seeAnd, as I understand it, you are now stepping

forward to offer me--on the chance of--of----"

"I offer you a place in this house asthat belief and every responsibility,

and every duty, and every sacrifice that such a belief entails,"

For a long ti,

pallid, his dark, expressionless eyes, fixed on space And after a

while he spoke

"Colonel Arran, I had rather than all the happiness on earth, that

you had left me the memory of my mother You have chosen not to do

so And now, do you think I a more respectable that you believe you can

offer?

"How, under God, you could have punished her as you did--how you

could have reconciled your conscience to the invocation of a brutal

lahich rehabilitated you at the expense of the woman who had

been your wife--how you could have done this in the name of duty

and of conscience, I can not comprehend