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We may onder what happened when, after Fyne had left hiirl went up at last and opened the door of that roouished Oh no! Nor cold; whatever

else he ht have cried at her in the first moment of

humiliation, of exasperation, "Oh, it's you! Why are you here? If I am

so odious to you that you ive you

back your word" But then, don't you see, it could not have been that I

have the practical certitude that soon afterwards they went together in a

hanso that

Flora de Barral did go to sea"

"Yes It seereed "But even without that--if, as

you seeure had a sort

of perversely seductive charh his co is possible)--then such words could not have

been spoken"

"They ht have escaped him involuntarily," observed Marlow "However,

a plain fact settles it They went off together to see the ship"

"Do you conclude fro whatever was said?" I inquired

"I should have liked to see the first lances upstairs

there,"was said But no le' (as Fyne called it) without showing soirl so bruised all over would feel

the slightest touch of anything rese coldness She was

y of evil is so

ood that she could not help

looking still upon her abooverness as an authority How could

one have expected her to throw off the unholy prestige of that long