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" I'll shoot Garry owen with my own hand, and 

 I'U hang for Dick Giveen, by G— d! " 



"Hush ! There is no use in giving way to anger. 

 We must have a council of war and collect all 

 our forces. I say — " 



" Yes? " 



" Mr Dash wood — " The girl paused for a 

 moment, then, as if the desperate nature of the 

 situation made everything else of small account, she 

 went on: "Mr Dashwood behaved very foohshly 

 the other day and ran away off to town. We 

 must send him a wire to-morrow morning to come 

 at once. I'll send it. And look here : you know 

 how grumpy I was after tea. Well, EiHe, in that 

 fit of lying, told me you had given her a letter to 

 post which she was to hide from me. Of course 

 I ought to have known you wouldn't do anything 

 of the sort. I'pologise. Good-night." 



They had been talking to each other attired only 

 in their dressing-gowns and slippers. If Crowsnest 

 Society could have seen them its doors would 

 have been shut against them from that night forth 

 for ever more. 



