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HE saw as she entered that they had discussed the matter of the message between them and were prepared to oppose her. Yet for what she had determined to do she must have help; and if she could not get it from them she did not know where help was to be had. Latham rose as she came in and met her pityingly.

"I'd have given a good deal if that could have been prevented." He looked from her to the box which was on the table.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"Of course when you offered rewards for information of Hedon and kept on advertising you courted a miserable trick like that. Sooner or later it was bound to come. Perhaps we're lucky that we've had so little of it."

"I see," Margaret met him. "You think that message is all a fraud."

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