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"Iuerite Whitland, who had few

illusions "You can get them for fifteen pounds at any of the West End

shops"

It was a very angry Miss Bertha Stegg who made her way in some haste to

Pimlico She shared a first-floor suite with a sister, and she burst

unceremoniously into her relative's presence, and the elder Miss Stegg

looked round with so?" she asked

She was a tall, bony woman, with a hard, tired face, and lacked most of

her sister's facial charned, and then

a----" (one ouerite Whitland,

which was uncharitable) "sers"

"She tumbled to it, eh?" said Clara "Has she put the splits on you?"

"I shouldn't think so," said Bertha, throwing off her coat and her hat,

and patting her hair "I got away too quickly, and I came on by the

car"

"Will he report it to the police?"

"He's not that kind Doesn't it make you mad, Clara, to think that

that fool has a million to spend? Do you knohat he's done? Made

perhaps a hundred thousand pounds in a couple of days! Wouldn't that

rile you?"