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Powell, the onlooker, affirms that at these incomprehensible words Mrs

Anthony stiffened into the very ihtened

stare and frozen lips But next minute a cry came out from her heart,

not very loud but of a quality whichat her), not only hi man, catch their breath: "But I don't want to

be let off," she cried

She was so still that one asked oneself whether the cry had come from

her The restless shuffle behind Powell's back stopped short, the

inter round,

saw Mr Smith raise his head with his faded eyes very still, puckered at

the corners, like a reat

distance And Mrs Anthony's voice reached Powell's ears, entreating and

indignant

"You can't cast o away from you I

won't--"

Powell turned about and discovered then that what Mr Shter clinging round Captain