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Wogan had an opportunity to make certain He knelt down and picked up

the letter; the foot was a wohtly stirred Wogan pretended to have re; he

stood easily by the ith his eyes upon his letter and his ht be And he re it as a punish as he stood by thethat unknooman cheek by joith

him must hold her breath, ony

of fear at each movement that he made

At last heso unexpected

that it startled him Indeed, for the moment it did more than startle

hi of the curtain

The woer in her hand, and the point of the blade

stuck out and shone in the ry It was all very well for the woer to hier in a

woman's hand could cope with hian felt

very much inclined to sweep that curtain aside and tell his visitor how

he had escaped frost the

chih he restrained hiet the better of his prudence Under the i that he did, and though he

suffered for it he could never afterwards bring hiret it He

deliberately knelt down and kissed the instep of the foot which

protruded frohten, but

the foot was not withdrawn The curtain shivered and shook, but no cry