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All theDrake with

questions Drake, knowing that he would have to go through it, was

giving as concise an account of it as was possible He earied to

death, not only of the burglary, but of the emotions he had experienced,

and his voice was low and his ainst his

will; but Burden heard every word, for, at its lowest, Drake's voice was

singularly clear

She listened, motionless as a statue, till he calar had turned and faced him Then she moved and had hard work

to stifle a h, over the edge

of his glass; "a deuced near thing! If I'd been you, I should have cried

a go, and let the fellow off Dash it all! a ht to risk his life, even for such diahed shortly

"I didn't think of the diamonds," he said quietly "It was a match

between me and the man He missed me and bolted to cover I followed,