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When Frank came downstairs to breakfast the conversation turned upon

his return to Gerh it can

hardly be said that he willed to go He was in that perilous

condition in which the comparison of reasons is impossible, and the

course taken depends upon some chance impulse of the moment, and is a

norance of

Madge, and with no certainty as to her future He resolved therefore

to make one more effort to discover the house That was all which he

determined to do What was to happen when he had found it, he did

not know He was driven to do so, which could not be of any

importance, save for what

himself even to consider as to follow He knew that at

Fenmarket one or other of the sisters went out soon after breakfast

to make provision for the day, and perhaps, if they kept up this

custoly

stationed himself in Great Ormond Street at about half-past nine, and

kept watch fro his position