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"Good luck to you!" he said "And you'd better get a better face on you

than that It's enough to send you up, on suspicion!"

She hardly heard hiain she said over and over

her little inarticulate prayer She knew the Spencer house More

than once she had walked past it, on Sunday afternoons, for the

sheer pleasure of seeing Graha was over, unless-The Spencer house was dark, save for a low light in the hall A new

terror seized her Suppose Grahaht think it a ruse to see his father But, as it happened,

Clayton had sent the butler to bed, and hinized her at once, and because he saw the distress on her face

he brought her in at once In the brief hts he had ju conviction that Graham was

at the bottoht confirmed

this

"Come into the library," he said "We can talk in there" He led the

way and drew up a chair for her But she did not sit down She steadied

herself by its back, instead