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Rh and she glanced at me with an expression of annoyance.

"You must not think, my dear; you must always make certain," he said.

Then after another covert, and not altogether pleasant glance at me, she turned reluctantly and left.

"I hope your daughter does not suspect anything?" I asked, glancing at the closed door.

"What can she suspect?" queried my patient. "No, my dear fellow, don't have any such misgivings. You are quite safe. I leave the whole matter entirely to you. He must be silenced, and you alone can do it. But what means do you intend to employ?"

"Ah! You must leave all details to me, Mr. Farnell," I said firmly. "In such a difficult and serious case one must provide for every contingency, however remote. Davies means mischief, hence he is just as wary as ourselves."

"Well, act entirely as you think fit, and there are eight hundred pounds for you on the day that he—the day that he is incompetent to trouble me further," he said.

And with that, I left and returned to Cromwell Road.