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has begun, the hounds have met, and Miss Badsworth hasn't 

 hunted them." 



" There is going to be a frost, don't you think? It's quite 

 possible hunting may be stopped, perhaps to the end of the 

 month. What is going to happen then ? There is provision 

 made for nothing but illness." 



" It doesn't matter in the least ; I can prove that on one 

 day the hounds met and Miss Badsworth did not hunt 

 them." 



" Yes, I suppose you could prove that easily enough, but 

 I can't see what difference it would make." 



" You appear to be a very dense sort of man, Mr. Morgan." 



" Perhaps I am," Jack replied with a smile. " I certainly 

 do not see that whether Miss Badsworth hunted the hounds 

 or not would make any difference." 



*' You don't? Then perhaps you will understand me v^'hen 

 I say I shall get an injunction." 



" Wouldn't it be better to wait till the end of November ? 

 there would be more time for your friend's little trick to blow 

 over." 



" I don't see why I should wait," Victor said. 



" Of course you can do as you please." 



<' Naturally." 



" You will have to swear an affidavit." 



" Probablv." 



Jack Morgan took up the copy of the Will and perused it 

 once more before he said : — 



" What are you going to swear to, Mr. Bickersdyke ? " 



" That on the 2nd of November Miss Badsworth did not 

 hunt the hounds." 



" Well, there is certainly no harm in that, only it has not 

 got much to do with the case." 



" I consider it has everything to do with it," Victor said 

 hotly. 



Jack got up from his chair and leaned against the mantel- 

 piece with his back to the fire. He would dearly have liked 

 to give Bickersdvke a piece of his mind, for there was a self- 



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