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58 She looked down with sudden embarrassment; he put his arms around her slender waist and drew her close to him. "Then? my love, my soul!"—

"Dearest, come here!" called Penelope's aunt, in that well-bred voice of hers which charmed all hearers, but at this particular moment was very exasperating to Dick. "Richard, come, I want you to see the man standing on the other side of the Avenue. I have been watching him and I think it is quite probable that he is watching the house. Are we never to have done with that Park mystery business?"

They all looked cautiously through the curtains, and they all agreed that the man was watching the house for some purpose.

"They are after you, Dick," exclaimed Penelope. "Oh, I am so afraid this will result seriously to you."

Richard thought so too, only where she