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"Why, is Doctor Berkeley interested in our decision?"

"Certainly he is, as you will appreciate when I tell you that he actually tried to bribe me secretly out of his own pocket"

"Did you?" she asked, looking at me with an expression that rather alarhty hot and unco Thorndyke at the devil with his confidences "I merely mentioned that the--the--solicitor's costs, you know, and that sort of thing--but you needn't juham; Doctor Thorndyke did all that was necessary in that way"

She continued to look at htfully as I sta to I was only thinking that poverty has its coood to us; and, for enerous offerit so easy for us"

"Very well, ham; "ill enjoy the sweets of poverty, as you say--we have sa pretty freely--and do ourselves the pleasure of accepting a great kindness, most delicately offered"

"Thank you," said Thorndyke "You have justified ham, and in the power of Doctor Berkeley's salt I understand that you place your affairs in haree to beforehand"

"Then," said I, "let us drink success to the Cause Port, if you please, Miss Bellinghae is not recorded, but it is quite wholesome, and a suitable lass, and, when the bottle had ed the new alliance

"There is just one thing that I would say before we disood thing to keep one's own counsel When you get fors are being commenced, you may refer them to Mr Marchmont of Gray's Inn, ill no to do, but we must preserve the fiction that I aoes into Court, I think it very necessary that neither Mr Jellicoe nor anyone else should know that I am to be connected with it We must keep the other side in the dark, if we can"

"We will be as secret as the grave," said Mr Bellingham; "and, as a matter of fact, it will be quite easy, since it happens, by a curious coincidence, that I am already acquainted with Mr Marchmont He acted for Stephen Blackmore, you remember, in that case that you unravelled so wonderfully I knew the Blackmores"