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Frank could not rest He wrote again to Clara at Fenmarket; the

letter went to Mrs Cork's, and was returned to hioods had left Fen the reason, he detered ill-health, a pretext

not altogether fictitious, and within a few days after the returned

letter reached hiton He went

immediately to the address in Pentonville which he found on the

envelope, but was very shortly informed by Mrs Cork that 'she knew

nothing whatever about them' He walked round Myddelton Square,

hopeless, for he had no clue whatever

What had happened to hi ether

different There was a chance of discovery, and if his criht his whole future life would be ruined He pictured his

excoony, and it was only when it seehastly thing thrown in

it, and no ripple reveal what lay underneath, that he was able to

breathe again Immediately he asked himself, however, IF he could

live with his father and wear a mask, and never betray his dreadful

secret So he wandered homeward in the most miserable of all

conditions; he was paralysed by the intricacy of the coil which

enveloped and grasped hi it happened that there was a musical party at his