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198 continued, aloud; 'you have been quite misinformed. I am Sir Charles Vandrift; and I am not a Tartar. If your husband is a man of science I respect and admire him. It is geology that has made me what I am to-day.' And he drew himself up proudly. 'We owe to it the present development of South African mining.'

The lady blushed as one seldom sees a mature woman blush—but exactly as I had seen Madame Picardet and White Heather. 'Oh, I'm so sorry,' she said, in a confused way that recalled Mrs. Granton. 'Forgive my hasty speech. I—I didn't know you.'