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"Mr Tibbetts is not concerned about the manner in which I spend roaned inwardly

There was a silence which Haone, and it was Bones who uttered the first comment

"That's that," he said, and his voice was so quiet and normal that

Hamilton stared at him in astonishment

"Let's have lunch," said Bones briskly, and led the way out

Not even when Miss Whitland came to him that afternoon and asked for

pere With a

courtesy entirely free frorown

accustomed, he acceded to her request, and she was on the point of

explaining to him the reason she had so unexpectedly asked for a

vacation, but the memory of his earlier manner checked her

It was a very simple explanation Jackson Hyane was a very plausible

of her erratic cousin,

but certainly nothing in his manner supported the more lurid

descriptions of his habits And Mr Jackson Hyane had begged her, in

the name of their relationships, to take a trip to Aberdeen to examine

title-deeds which, he explained, would enable her to join with him in

an action of the recovery of valuable Whitland property which was in

danger of going to the Crown, and she had consented