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"You do, you do," Beaminster said hurriedly. "Just by coming in to see me. Now cut along or you'll be late."
Back in his room he stood, looking at the curtains, listening to the strange spider-like hum of the traffic beyond the windows.
Yes, he loved that boy. What was the use of it so late? What the meaning of it? What the meaning of anything?
He sat down slowly and heavily, pulled the Evening Standard towards him, read further details in the history of the young man who had buried his young woman in his own chicken-run, and in his ears rang persistently the tones, fresh and clear, of Tom's loves and ambitions.
CHAPTER IV
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When Janet Grandison awakened on the morning after her acceptance of Wildherne Poole her first conscious sensation was one of indefinite, unsubstantiated fear.
She was afraid of something. Something had happened that would have for her appalling consequences. Her life was in danger, her sister's life was in danger.... She must act at once or ...