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 rouleau containing a considerable sum of money. There was nothing to indicate where it came from.

"It must have cost a good deal of self-denial for Pembroke to send me this," she said, after counting the money. "He is not a rich man. It will perhaps serve me in some dreadful emergency"—for she had learned to expect dreadful emergencies by that time.