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Rh She stood up suddenly.

"You seem to think you have disguised your real nature so that I could not foresee you would do this—and therefore keep by me rather more than enough for all personal expenses before my marriage," she said.

"I amuse you?" he demanded angrily.

"It is rather amusing to find you counting upon a million or so, as an added inducement to the Soesoehoenan to marry me, when he is ready to pay for me the Surakarta. So that is all you can do, Mr. Hereford?"

"That is all I can do legally," he blurted out.

"Ah, legally!" she teased. "I really had done you the honor to forget for a moment that, besides being a banker, you were a lawyer."

Suddenly he lost his self-control. He was