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felt chiefly annoyed by the fact that the complete stranger they had chosen to blackmail should be Sir James.

"Then you did blackmail him," she said in a tone of dismay.

"He seemed to think that we were—like the Douglases used to," said the Terror in an amiable tone.

"But surely you knew that blackmailing is very wrong—very wrong, indeed," said Mrs. Danger-
field.

"Well, he did seem to think so," said the Terror. "But we thought he was prejudiced; and we didn't take much notice of him."

"And we couldn't possibly let him take no notice of our letter, Mum—it was such a polite letter—and not take it out of him," said Erebus.

"And it hasn't done any harm, you know. We wanted those trout ever so much more than he did," said the Terror.

Mrs. Dangerfield said nothing for a while; and her frown deepened as she pondered how to deal with the affair. She was still chiefly annoyed that Sir James should have been the victim. The Twins

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