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114 state of mind. Before my sister could reply to my appeal he spoke.

"I don't know what is the right thing to do. I am disgusted with the whole affair. Let us wait and see whether he says any more himself. On the other hand I will collect all the information I can get regarding him. I met the doctor yesterday, and asked him to come and play tennis to-morrow. We will question him about the engagement in England, and can then form a correct estimate of the man. In the meantime, however, it will be very disagreeable for me to enter the Bar-Library to-morrow."

"What grieves me most is the thought of father," was my sister's anxious remark.

Yes, poor father, I, too, was thinking of him, and there lay the most painful part of the whole affair.