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No policemen had come to trouble him yet No hint that he would be 'wanted' had been s were not to go on as they went before Things would be exactly as they were before, but for the absence of those guests from the dinner-table, and for the words which Miles Grendall had spoken Had he not allowed himself to be terrified by shadows? Of course he had known that there must be such shadows His life had been made dark by sih the storhly ashamed of the weakness which had overcome him at the dinner-table, and of that palsy of fear which he had allowed hi such as that When people talked of him they should say that he was at least a h his h one of the doors, and immediately withdrawn It was his Secretary 'Is that you, Miles?' he said 'Co home, and came up here to see how the eone What became of your father?'

'I suppose he went away'

'I suppose he did,' said Mel a certain tone of scorn into his voice,--as though proclai away of the rat 'It went off very well, I think'

'Very well,' said Miles, still standing at the door There had been a feords of consultation between him and his father,--only a very feords 'You'd better see it out to-night, as you've had a regular salary, and all that I shall hook it I sha'n't go near hi By G----, I've had about enough of hih of his money or it may be presumed that Lord Alfred would have 'hooked it' sooner

'Why don't you come in, and not stand there?' said Melmotte 'There's no Emperor here now for you to be afraid of'

'I' into the middle of the room

'Nor am I What's one ot to die, and there'll be an end of it, I suppose'

'That's about it,' said Miles, hardly following the working of his master's mind

'I shouldn't care how soon When a e I suppose I'd better be down at the committee-room about ten to-morrow?'