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No scorn could stand against the ies advanced with

heat and conviction They shook hi in the air

of that stuffy hotel-rooet rid

of, when the door opened and Flora de Barral entered

He did not even notice that she was late He was sitting on a sofa

plunged in gloo hiined that people (unless they were liars, which of course

his brother-in-law could not be) never said more than they meant The

deep chest voice of little Fyne was still in his ear "He knows,"

Anthony said to hiain But she stood there before hi How

could he abandon her? That was out of the question She had no one Or

rather she had so to take him at

her valuation This father may have been the victim of theout of jail do? An old

man too And then--what sort of htly and the faint smile hich Flora had

entered the room faded on her lips She was used to his ier afraid of it But she had never seen him

look like this before, and she suspected at once soot up with his usual ardour but as if sobered by a moht I have seen you You have told