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"I had no thought to hurt you," she said, and her voice trean took a step towards her and checked

himself He spoke sharply between clenched teeth

"Lock your door," said he

The curtain between thean had patched and patched it

before; but it was torn do, and they had seen each other without

so much as that patched semblance of a screen to veil their eyes

Clementina did not answer him or raise her head She went quietly into

her rooan did not move until she had locked the door

Then he disposed hiht He sat down across the top step

of the stairs with his back propped against the passage wall Facing him

was the door of Clee with the

oil la on a bracket, stretched to the house-wall; on his right

the stairs descended straight for some steps, then turned to the left

and ran down still within view to a point where again they turned

outwards into the courtyard Wogan saw to the pri of his pistols and

laid theht over the low-roofed