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coe was in my head while I stared hard across the wide

road, so hard that I failed to hear little Fyne till he raised his deep

voice indignantly

"I don't bla "He is infatuated with her

Anybody can see that Why she should have got such a hold on him I can't

understand She said "Yes" to hi father of hers It's perfectly plain if one thinks it over a

moment One needn't even think of it We have it under her own hand In

that letter to my wife she says she has acted unscrupulously She has

owned up, then, for what else can it mean, I should like to know And so

they are to be married before that old idiot comes outHe will be

surprised," conant tone "He

shall be met at the jail door by a Mrs Anthony, a Mrs Captain Anthony

Very pleasant for Zoe And for all I know, my brother-in-law means to

turn up dutifully too A little fahtful A charainst the

world--and all that sort of thing And what for For a girl that

doesn't care twopence for him"