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Rh "You are not acting, then, under Miss Regan's directions except as they concur with the orders of your chief?"

He looked again from the officer back to the girl, and made a doubtful and hesitating pause. The officer made a movement of conciliation or apology, Hereford could not tell which; but Lorine, with head thrown back and flushed with victory met his look with a triumphant smile. He returned it disturbedly and unevenly; for Hereford knew now that he loved her.

He thought, as he stood fumbling with the envelope he had taken from his pocket, how strange it was that he had not known this before; for it was no new thing. It had not sprung up since her return and his learning of her strange, mad project to marry the Soesoehoenan of Surakarta. It had been so