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I thanked Dr Thorndykeme free of his cha forth homewards by way of Middle Temple Lane and the Embankment; not a very direct route for Fetter Lane, it must be confessed; but our talk had revived ham household and put me in a reflective vein

From the remarkable conversation that I had overheard it was evident that the plot was thickening Not that I supposed that these two respectable gentle uarded words, spoken in anger, ht of sinister possibilities to enter his row into actual suspicion And then the circuhly mysterious, as I realised with especial vividness now after listening to my friend's analysis of the evidence

From the proble the last few days, to the handsoh-priestess of this teure she round, with her quiet, chilly, self-contained ht brows and solerey eyes, so inscrutable, , even i in it somatic that attracted and yet repelled

And here I recalled Jervis's words: "The girl must have been in it if the father was" It was a dreadful thought, even though only speculatively uttered, and nation that rather surprised ure that my memory conjured up was one that associated itself appropriately enough with the idea of edy