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336 man. "I'm sure of that. Really a good thing, I expect," he concluded.

There was, of course, intense agitation and many tears as the result of his opinion; but I took no heed. I could not forget the sick man's treatment of his wife.

Well—he died, and when I made my final examination by myself, I managed to withdraw that incriminating piece of steel.

I ran a very big risk over that. If only he had at any time been rational enough to locate the seat of his pain I should have probably been discovered.

But the Devil looks after his own, and certainly he kept a watchful eye over me on that occasion.

I saw a good deal of the widow for some months after this, but I was too busy to see her often enough, and she found and married a fellow on the Stock Exchange.

Yes, Rita was very charming, but dangerous—and fickle.