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Rh there an hour. She asked me not to tell any one else she's here, sir."

"Then my aunt has not seen her? "I exclaimed, scenting mystery in this unexpected visit.

"No, sir. She wishes to see you alone, sir."

I walked across the big hall and along the corridor to the room the old man had indicated.

And as I opened the door and Muriel Leithcourt in plain black rose to meet me, I plainly saw from her white, haggard countenance that something had happened — that she had been forced by circumstances to come to me in strictest confidence.

Was she, I wondered, about to reveal to me the truth?