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"You have sent Haldane to prison," she said calh her tone was so quiet, there was in it a certain depth and tremble which her husband well understood, but he only answered briefly: "Yes; he o there if he finds no bail"

"May I ask why?"

"He robbedcircuht start

"No, butones"

"Did he not come here of his own accord?"

"He could not have done otherwise I had detectives watching him"

"He could have tried to do otherwise Did he not offer some explanation?"

"What he said amounted to a confession of the cried race It is sufficient for me that he and all in et I wish you would excuse me from further consideration of the subject at present It has cost me too much time already"

"You are correct," said Mrs Arnot very quietly "It is likely to prove a very costly affair I tre man, whorace; I tremble to think what this event may cost my friend, his mother Of the pain it has cost me I will not speak--"

"Madam," interrupted Mr Arnot harshly, "per which a senti I propose to carry on ht est that in these matters of business I am in my own province"

The ashen hue deepened upon Mrs Arnot's face, but she answered quietly: "I do not wish to overstep the bounds which should justly limit my action and my interest in this matter You will also do me the justice to remember that I have never interfered in your business, and have rarely asked you about it, though in the world's estiht to do so But if such harshness, if such disastrous cruelty, is necessary to your business, I must withdraw my means from it, for I could not receive money stained, as it were, with blood But of this hereafter I will now telegraph Mrs Haldane to come directly to our house--"

"To our house!" cried Mr Arnot, perfectly aghast

"Certainly Can you suppose that, burdened with this intolerable disgrace, she could endure the publicity of a hotel? I shall next visit Haldane, for as I saw hi, he looked desperate enough to destroy himself"