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Rh The running steps passed and scattered rapidly away.

"You!" the girl cried in a wild, incredulous whisper, as she shot on her light again. "You! So it was you all the time! It was you!"

Preston, as he read the hopeless accusation in her face, drew away quietly.

"And five minutes after—!" She rubbed her white lips pitilessly with her handkerchief. "And five minutes after—!"

He turned out the light as she opened her door, and went out silently into the empty passage.

The girl bolted the door fast and threw herself, wide-eyed and tearless, upon the bed. 317