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for comforting me with the information. You not only accomplished the object of drawing me away from home, but also made an examination of my books which could be fabricated into a basis for legal action at least temporarily inconvenient. Did your future countrymen suggest that to you? It was very clever, if you devised it without their advice."
"Devised it without—" She stopped, and he saw upon her face only a baffling expression—the same he had seen once and then again in their interview at his rooms the night before; and now, as then, suddenly it brought the hot blood unbidden to beating in his hands and temples.
"I am to understand then," he said when he had commanded himself, "that you propose accusing me?"
