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Rh But she flashed upon him the daring, adventurous smile of the girl who, to shock the discreet world that refused her, was to marry the Malay Sultan of Java; and his anger rose as she moved toward the door.

"Miss Regan," he said, "you began this interview with a reference to your father. Let me end it in the same way. In spite of your father's private generosity, I never knew him openly to yield a point, as you would have me think you just have done, except to gain some subsequent advantage for himself. Great as are my gratitude and respect for him, I know this to have been the case."

Her eyes flashed angrily now.

"You mean you think I resemble him also in that?"

"That is it."