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employer, knowing her desires, made it possible for her to gratify them.

Now that he was to marry, he would not be likely to hold out any inducement for the girl to stay with him, and if they should happen across her now it was possible that she would gladly return to the humble home of her sister.

Still, supposing Tolman Bike had found no attraction for him in the stenographer? It was a very delicate thing to handle, considering that Richard's knowledge was mostly supposition.

"Do you think that Maggie's sister really worked those nights she was away from home?" Dick asked Dido.

"She always brought extra money home, which proved she did," Dido replied positively.

"Did she ever talk about Tolman Bike?"

"Never, except when she mentioned that