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Mr Mangan nodded his approval

"Upon o and see so to put 'e Johnson has had the worst of it, poor chap, but there are one or two of them took it into their heads to come up to London and worry me at the office"

"I intend that there shall be no an set off for another proards the sideboard

"Satisfied tenants you never will get in Norfolk," he declared "I rumble lately There's a fellow round by Wells who farht hundred acres--"

He broke off in his speech There was a knock at the door, not an ordinary knock at all, but a , three times repeated

"Come in," Dominey called out

Mrs Unthank entered, severer, ht She ca the place where Dominey was seated

"Good

"I ae," she announced

"Pray deliver it," Dolad for you to visit her in her apartment at once"

Dominey leaned back in his chair His eyes were fixed upon the face of the woonis gleaht The wrinkles in her face, her hard mouth, her cold, steely eyes were all clearly revealed

"I am not at all sure," he said, with a purpose in the words, "that any furtherbetween Lady Doht to disturb this estion, he was disappointed

"Her ladyship desires me to assure you," she added, with a note of contempt in her tone, "that you need be under no apprehension"

Dominey admitted defeat and poured himself out soers were tre

"Her ladyship is very considerate," he said "Kindly say that I shall follow you in a fewwithin a very few e and soold walls, of chandeliers glittering with lustres, of Louise Quinze furniture, shabby but priceless To his surprise, although he scarcely noticed it at the time, Mrs Unthank promptly disappeared He was from the first left alone with the woman whom he had come to visit