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to Fleet Street Post Office, and wired to Marmaduke:

"Come at once. Catch next train. Bring clothes. Will meet you at Euston."

Then I went back to my rooms and packed a kit-bag. By the time I had done lunch was ready, a carefully chosen lunch to celebrate the return of Angel; and all through it she teased me to tell her what I had in mind. But I assured her that she had much better wait for an agreeable surprise. She did her best to hide her disappointment at my leaving her, and never said a word to keep me back, but she sighed now and again and she begged me not to be long away.

I took a hansom to Euston to meet Marmaduke's train, and she went with me. To my great content, he had caught it. I put Angel into a hansom, and bade her good-by. Then I and Marmaduke drove to Waterloo.

He was looking another man, a man not only stouter, but of more spirit. But it was somewhat sadly that he told me that he had seen in the