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260 see, you'd found out a bit too much to be let off loight! We had to turn out of the place where we'd met together for years, all along of you and your findings. And that wasn't all neither!"

And a significant frown puckered his brows once more.

"Why, what other harm have I done you, than what I had to do in the course of my duty?" asked Tregenna.

"You'd gotten the roight side of Ann!" growled Ann's lover, angrily.

"The right side! Nay, then I know not what getting the wrong side would be like!" retorted Tregenna, lightly. "For there's no sort of ill treatment, short of actual murder, that I have not received at her hands, and I own I never meet her without watching her hands, to be sure she holds not a knife concealed in some fold of her dress, wherewith to stab me!"

"Ay, that's Ann all over!" said her lover, admiringly. "She's got such a spirit, has Ann! But it's just them ways of hers with you that makes me know she looks upon you with too koind an eye, sir. She loikes you, and she