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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hewas convinced that Adela Victor was dead, and
that no trace of herwould ever be found.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But it was the face that took away my breath.
Theporter gave me a crazy address in North London.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Make itclear that you have broken for ever with
me.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If my headaches return, shall I go back to Madame
Breda? Make itclear that you have broken for ever with me. Look here,I said, Im
simply wasting my time. Because he was the next stage in the clue to that
nonsensicalrhyme.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Look at your master, came the voice again,
peremptory as a drill-sergeants.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Your case is slightlydifferent from what I at first
supposed.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Didnt you think he behaved oddly at the Thursday
dinner?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I swore that Sandy and I would make him swallow
that wordbefore he was very much older. There was no film orblearing to mar their
glory.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And again:You say there was a scent like peat in
the room? I am glad to see that you and Medina are friends,Sir Richard. In manner
and presence he was the perfection ofunselfconscious good breeding.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Most people who have led your life findthe English
spring trying.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Newhover,but there was not likely to be much
assistance there. And then I saw that the eyes which were looking at the fire
werethe most remarkable things of all. And when I come back itmay not be as Sandy
Arbuthnot.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But it was the face that took away my
breath.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He and I have become bosomfriends and I like him
enormously.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The odd thing was that he talked a good deal about
myself. As my eyes passed from her they fell on another figure that seemedfamiliar.
But till the other day Ihadnt seen him for years, and I must say he has grown very
queer. I would say my prayers before taking on thatfellow in a scrap.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>His manner was exactly that of abusy doctor dealing
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