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"You frightened me," she said "And your father?"

"I have not seen him I do not knohat it means He was not at his

hotel, nor anywhere where there was a chance of ain to-morrow"

"I am very much inclined to wait till he sends for me I think I have

done all that can be expected of h; you ain,

and you must call to-morrow"

"Why to-uerite, and it seehtly at this question, "because it will show that you are the ive us the sooner"

For the reuerite was sad and preoccupied I had

to repeat twice over everything I said to her to obtain an answer She

ascribed this preoccupation to her anxiety in regard to the events which

had happened during the last two days I spent the night in reassuring

her, and she sentwith an insistent disquietude

that I could not explain to ain my father was absent, but he had left this letter for ain to-day, wait for me till four If I am not in by

four, come and dine with me to-morrow I must see you"