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was curiously anxious about Sir Ian.

Her anxiety amounted to a presentiment of evil; but what kind of evil she could not define.

The morning after her arrival with Nora Verney at St. Pierre de Chartreuse, he bade her good-bye, saying that he must return immediately to England. And she did not remind him that he had said, because of Major Smedley, he would remain at St. Pierre for a day or two longer.

Of course, everything was different now, on account of Ian Barr. Sir Ian did not say that Barr's fate had anything to do with his change of plan, but Terry was sure it had, just as much as it had to do with hers.

The annoyance that they had both suffered from Major Smedley's arrival appeared as nothing now, looked back upon after the sensational incident of the evening. It did not seem to matter much, somehow, Terry thought, what Major Smedley thought or did; so it could hardly be fear of trouble from that quarter which had altered Sir Ian's looks for the worse since the night before.

He had been haggard then, but he was more haggard now, and it was far truer of him to-day than it had been