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He held it away froated stillback your love-letters, son But by the look she

had on her face when she was talking about you tothat Well, here's comfort for you!" He placed the packet in

Mayo's hands

The parcel was sealed with three neat patches of wax, and on each blob

was iram Mayo turned the packet

over and over

"If you wantas confidential toward me as

you used to, I'll do it," proffered Captain Wass, after a polite wait

"I' man

"That's for reasons of my own--quite private ones, sir"

"But I'd just as soon step out"

"No, sir Your being here has nothing whatever to do with the matter"

He buttoned the packet into his coat pocket He had little respect for

Fletcher Fogg's delicacy in any question of procedure; the promoter's

animus in the ent

had crystallized in bitter words an idea which was deterring Mayo: would

he take advantage of a girl's rash betrayal of her father? Soram made sacred precincts of the inside of the