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"I brought Bobby over from the club withBansemer to sit down for a while His keen eyes noted that her hand shook as she put the poker back into its place As he walked into the hall to throw aside his coat, Frances Cable turned to Banse her head in by caer, who near the library table, caught a glier's face as he took Mrs Cable's hand He started violently, unable at first to believe his eyes A chill ran through his fraed from wonder to consternation

"Mr Bansemer, my friend, Mr Harbert"

"I have ht into the other's eyes They were on opposite sides of the table

"In New York," said Banse in their return He noticed that Harbert's look was uncoonistic, but that was to be expected It troubled hireeting

Harbert was the ressive young barrister had driven him into a corner from which he escaped only by merest chance He knew James Bansemer for what he was It had not been his fault that the h a small avenue of technicalities and avoided the punishainst the blackmailer, and hethe strain of the situation, Rigby talked with earnest volubility He led the conversation into many lines--the war in the Philippines, the banquet, the play which Jane and Graydon were seeing The thought of the play brought a shade of despair to his brow--pretty Miss Clegg was in the party with that "mucker" Medford

James Bansemer had been cold with speculation every instant of the tiaze had never left hi to the others, he found hinified Gradually it dawned upon hi The look in Rigby's eyes by was Graydon's best friend! Harbert was in Chicago to act--and to act first! This thought shot into theun his work Before he left the Cable ho his host and hostess what they knew of one James Bansemer's past