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Yet as a cornered hare will turn and give battle, desperately, to her eager foes, the woure which stood in her path; and as she did so Major Carstairs entle hand from the face it had so far partially concealed

And as ildly beating pulses Anstice bent forward to catch a glimpse of the mysterious visitor he knew that his surmise, unlikely as it had seemed, had been correct; that by a stroke of luck the expert, Clive, had been able to point unerringly to the clue which was to solve the mystery of those vile letters and restore to an innocent woman the fair naure was none other than Tochatti

"My God! Then it was you!" Major Carstairs' tone was so full of disgust, of loathing, of the just indignation of a righteously angry rip; and as Anstice came forward the other man turned to hiured his face "Look at her, Anstice, the raded creature! To think that she has been with ht and day--and all the tiby the here is that letter?"

He broke off suddenly and Anstice caht of it in the woman's clenched hand, and with a sers to open and release that which they held "Here it is--will you take it? I can look after her all right"

"No--but just see what the address is, will you?" Major Carstairs had regained his self-control, and now stood quiet, alert, cool, as though on parade "May as well knoas her chosen victim this time"

"Oh, my old friend Carey--you know, the Vicar of Littlefield" Anstice tossed the envelope on to a chair out of reach "He was the first one honoured, I believe, and possibly was to have been the last!"

All this ti, her breast heaving stormily Now she turned on Anstice fiercely and poured out a strea to histhat she made no impression she redoubled her efforts, and finally her voice rose to a scream