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He raised his eyelids ih his eyelashes He

saw close beside him the lower part of a woman's frock, and it was the

frock which Cle

within his breast "Was there truth in the drea the question, Cle was

suddenly arrested It seemed to him, too, from the little that he saw

between his closed eyes, that she stiffened froid attitude, very still Soht with it a shock of surprise Wogan, without

his eyes a fraction wider, looked down the

staircase and saw just above the edge of one of the steep stairs a face

watching theht, birdlike eyes and an indescribable

expression of cunning

Wogan had need of all his self-control He felt that his eyelids were

fluttering on his cheeks, that his breath had stopped even as

Clementina's had For the face which he saas one quite fah never faoing gentleman who made up for the lack of his wit by the

heartiness of his laugh, and to whoan had been drawn because of his