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"I a herself "I had

nothing to do So I came out"

I had the sudden vision of a shabby, lonely little roorown intolerable to her restlessness The ht of it oppressed her Flora de Barral was looking frankly at her

chance confidant, "And I came this way," she went on "I appointed the time myself

yesterday, but Captain Anthony would not haveto look over some business papers till I came"

The idea of the son of the poet, the rescuer of the entleness and generosity, sitting

up to his neck in ship's accounts amusedBut the girl's stare was sombre, her thin

white face seemed pathetically careworn

"I can hardly believe yet," she murmured anxiously

"It's quite real Never fear," I said encouragingly, but had to change

o down that way a little," I directed

her abruptly

I had seen Fyne coirl, without staying to ask questions, walked away from me quietly down

one street while I hurried on to ait My object was to stop hi too hard to be aware of his