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Suddenly he sat down beside Clayton and buried his face in his hands

For some reason or other Clayton found hiht when Joey lay still and quiet, and Graha of the bed With the incredible

rapidity of thought in a o to France thwarted, his attempt to interest himself

in the business, the tool Marion Hayden hadinevitably to catastrophe And through it all

he saw Natalie, holding Graha hi his confidences for her own ends, insidiously

sapping the boy's confidence in his father and hiether, Graha to throw ether--"

"No"

"But--all this--!"

"If Herman Klein had not done it, there were others ould, probably

It looks as though you had provided them with a tool, but I suppose ere vulnerable in a dozen ways"

He rose, and they stood, eyes level, father and son, in the early

ht And suddenly Grahaht around Clayton's heart relaxed Once again, and now

for good, he had found his boy, the little boy who had not so long ago