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And it would have been woras better than their environments had his conscience had not been clear. prompted the second visit, and that But was

it so extremely clear? of this afternoon. He had, he told Would he have taken the trouble himself, wanted to know that he to go to that flower-girl's dwelling, was not throwing away his money. not once, but three times, unless And there certainly was some ap-| she had been attractive, unless pearance of comfort now in a room jher dark brown eyes had been so small that he and the baby and But the them the pretty, and her common voice so the bed almost filled it. soft Would he have visited the longer he contemplated

at that greater fool he felt for ever having) bloway old flower-woman other corner, in circumstances, to coma there, ever. with those best the devil. His intentions which were atrenuous? doubt, just an

But his And, turning to'go, he saw the girl honesty answered: No. sense of Justice added that, if he herself coming up the stairs, with did like a pretty face, he was not a paper bag in her hand and an vicious he was fastidious and de-evident bull's-eye in her mouth, for tented subterfuge. But then Olga a scent of peppermint preceded was so cynical; she would certain-her. Surely her cheekbones were y aak him why he hadn't visited Migher than he had thought, her the old flower-woman as well, and eyebrows more oblique-a gipay the lame man who sold matches. look! Her eyes, dark and lustrous and all the other stray unfortunates as a hound puppy's, smiled at him, and he said in his rather high of the neighbourhood.

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B Afth course presented itself mail me on the Embankment. which seemed even bolder: Ignore know what blackmail is?" the thing

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Senator Albert Sagraut, of the Aude Department, who was selected by President LeBrup of France to form a new cabinet following the resignation of Premier Daladier and his government. Daladier co- signed after he was defeated on mutional tax proposals.

Well. there it was! and a bold voice: course always the best! But what was the bold course? To go to the thing."

To that wife! police? To his

"Do you know a dark man with girl, and find out if she were in this

o'clock thin face and a slight squint, who's ramp? To wait till six

the been in the Army?" meet the ruffian, and shake teeth out of him? Granter could not decide. All seemed equally bold-would do equally well. Antime from here and tried to black-noon, on the Embankment."

You

"What's his name, sir!"

"I don't know; but he followed

and and himself standing there letting the whole cart-load of the Law fall on them. And he said suddenly:

"I was blackmailed this after-

She did not answer, and, turning her (with irritation, he saw that

Ongers were in her ears.

"I do wish you wouldn't fingle your money so," she said.

Confound it! She had not heard

It

Feline, swift, furtive, she had The ide had just turned, and the tull waters below him were in sus-passed him and taken up her baby, pense, of a sunlit soft grey colour, slanting her dark glance at him This stillness of the river restored from behind It. Granter's eyes him.

very round just then, the "I've had an adventure," he ba- to Charles Granter something of were the Impersonal mood in which he corners of his mouth very drawn gan again. "You know the flower- He was experiencing agir) who stands at that corner in had crossed the Embankment to down. look at it Here, by the mothar most queer sensation. Really it Tite-streal?"

"Yee; gipsy baggage." stream of this great town, was he was as if-though he disliked

"I'm Well. I bought a flower tall, strong, well-fed, and if not poetic emphasis-as if he had sud- rich, aufta comfortable: and hers, denly seen something pre-civilised, from her one day, and she told me anake-like, cat-like, such a pathetic story that I went to [too, were hundreds of thousands pre-human, like that needy flower-girl and the monkey-like, too, in those darker den to see if it was true. shadows scoundrel, skating on the sliding eyes and That yellow baby. seemed all right, so I gave her some Then I edge of destitution. And hare this Sure, as he stood there, she was in money, don't you know,

afit: or, if not in it, she knew of it.

thought I'd better see how she was] 8 source water was to him

"A dangerous game, that," he spending it, so I went to see her nesthetic enjoyment to them possible last refuge. The girl had said. "Tell him-for his own good again, don't you know."

A faint "Oh! Charles!" caused' talked of it-beggar's patter, per--he had better drop it."

And, while he went, very square, him to hurry on. hans, l'ke the blackmailer's words:

d'you "I'm desperate-I'm down and out." downstairs, he thought: "This is

One wanted to be just: If he one of the finest opportunities you blackguard followed me to-day and for ten had known All about them-but ever had for getting to the bottom triod to blackmall me

of human nature, and you're run-pounds on the Embankment." there it was, he knew nothing!

A sound brought his face round "I can't believe she's such an ning away from it." So strongly

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little wretch {" thought. "I'll go back and see her he halted, in two minds, outside. A back on the cushions of her chair

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It was clear to Granter, then, car, lookd at him curiously, Char- He retraced his way up Oakley- les Granter moved away.

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Nature had set a up at him with the placidity of one Granter never now confided to her size beyond which husbands- recently fed. That stare seemed the finer shades of his thoughts

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"I don't see what there is to

to Granter to be saving: "You look and conduct, because she had long laugh at!" he said frigidly, "there's out that you're not taken for my made him feel he was her auperior no more odious crime than black-

mail." author. Have you got an alibi, old

His wife was allent; twn teari man." he began to calculate where he had it was often very awkward: but were trickling down her cheeks.

"Did you give it him?" she zală been about fourteen or fifteen he could not help it. In view of

Not in London this attempt at blackmail. It was in an extinguished voice. thank goodness! In Brittany with more than awkward. For it is ex- his wife all that July, August, traordinarily unpleasant to fall 28th Nov.

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"What was he threatening?" "To tell you." "But what?"

"His beastly interpretation of my

3rd Dec. but it might be only four months lacquered chair with black cushions, harmless visits."

old! The baby opened its mouth spoke of the leaves turning, saw The tears had made runlets In 30th Nov. in a toothless smile, "Gat" it said, her look at him and smile, and felt her powder, and he added, vicious-

and stretched out a tiny hand. that she knew he was disturbed. ly: "He doesn't know you, Granter ceased to jingia the coins "Do you ever wonder," he said, course." and gazed round the room.

of

tinking his teaspoon, "about the Hle wife dabbed her eyes, and a The first time he eme, a month lives that other people live?" scent of geranium arose.

It seems to me," said Grantar, ugo, to that her street-coruer story, "What sort of people, Charles'?"

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"You? You're too large, Charles, wälting, for his ten pounds. Granter and too dignified, my dear; you'd ross, His duty was to go out and be on the Civil List before you hand him over to the polles. could torn, round.”/ Granter rose "No!" he thought viciously, "Let' from the lacquered chair, jingling him comekerel... 14 very much like his coins. The most vivid pictures him to come here. I'd teach him at that moment were, like a film. But, sort of kháme baset- him. unrolled before his mind of the Like most "vary big man, he was vrey-uunlit, river, and that sprost- qulfseun”

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