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 She would not be without food and shelter. Also she knew his town address. Unless her protestations were wholly false she would communicate with him.

“T am going to London,” he explained to Mrs. Selton, “and may return toight, but of this I cannot be certain. If I do not you must stay here and wait in case she comes. If she does, tell her I have gone to look for her, give her this money, and tell her to follow.”

He slipped a banknote into the hands of the frightened woman and left her. Truly she had never seen so great a change in aman. His usually impassive face was twitching with excitement; his eyes had grown piercing and wild. The good lady was quite convinced that she had been sheltering a brood of escaped lunatics.

Arriving in London, he sprang into a taxie and was whirled with all haste to his rooms in Westminster. Eagerly he searched his accumulated correspondence, but without finding a word from her. Again he went over it swiftly, feverishly, but he knew that he was searching for that which did not exist. Stupefied he looked at the pile of letters, scarcely yet be- lieving that which he knew to be true. Then