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THE STRAND MAGAZINE.

comfort, and from any interference. An income amply sufficient for her wants had been paid to her account at the Bank had she chosen to draw it.

When, subsequently, he lost sight of her in her restless journeyings, he blamed himself bitterly. The darkness had never seemed more hopeless than when she was nearest—when he passed her in the Strand.


Were those five years wasted? was the question they sometimes asked themselves.


"Do you mean to say I did that idiotic thing?"

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