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"Highly--it's just the plan to appeal toinfectiously; and Chloe rose fro to his chair seated herself on the arm and rested her hand on his shoulder
"I knohy the plan appeals to you, Leo! It recalls your schoolboy days, when you pretended to go to bed and then stole out to skate by ht!"
"Hush, hush, Chloe! Never tell tales out of school," commanded the Major in ers closed round his wife's hand, and suddenly he felt as though this spectacle of their reunion was too tantalizing to be pleasant to a sore heart like his own
He rose rather abruptly, and both the others looked at hi, Anstice? Surely you'll stay to dinner? My little daughter will be sorely disappointed if you run away now!"
"Do stay, Dr Anstice!" Chloe rose too, and her eyes, like two beautiful blue jewels, shone kindly into his "Our scheme will have to be discussed further, won't it? We mustn't take the field with an ill-prepared plan, must we, Leo?"
"Indeed we must not," returned her husband quickly "Especially as I was going to ask a very big favour of you Dr Anstice! Seeing howyourself in this affair, I have been wondering whether you wouldn't conceivably like to be in at the death, so to speak In plain words, I was going to ask you if you would care to be my fellow-conspirator in this nefarious plot we have hatched between us!"
"You erly, and Chloe smiled
"Well, you're not annoyed by the suggestion, anyway! I needn't say I should appreciate your co to ask ato sacrifice the rest he must need pretty badly!" He spoke rather dubiously
"Oh, not a bit of it, Major Carstairs!" Anstice's eyes brightened at the thought of the adventure "In a matter of this kind titnesses are better than one; and there is always a chance that even a woman may turn nasty when she finds herself cornered--especially one who is half a foreigner," he added with a sood of you----"
"Not at all, sir You forget I'm an interested party," said Anstice quickly "It is as much to my interest to clear the matter up as to yours, now Well, what about details? Where--and how--shall we ?"