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"And perhaps not her nephew No relation at all"--Fyne emitted with a

convulsive effort this, the most awful part of the suspicions Mrs Fyne

used to impart to hiravely with her and the children The Fynes, in their good-natured

concern for the unlucky child of thecasually so

many millions, spent the

earnestly what could be done to defeat theto invent some tactful line of conduct in such extraordinary

circu

honestly about that unprotected big girl while looking at their own

little girls playing on the sea-shore Fyne assured reat problem of interference

"It was very acute of Mrs Fyne to spot such a deep gaone to now, to let her be

taken unawares by a game so much simpler and played to the end under her

very nose But then, at that tihtly rest was disturbed

by the dread of the fate preparing for de Barral's unprotected child, she

was not engaged in writing a compendious and ruthless hand-book on the

theory and practice of life, for the use of worievance She

could as yet, before the task of evolving the philosophy of rebellious