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Beatrice

CHAPTER X
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"Well, I will do as you wish, but I warn you your fame will find you out.

I hear they have an account of the whole adventure in to-day's papers, headed, 'A Welsh Heroine.'" "How did you hear that, Honoria ?" asked her husband.
"Oh, I had a telegram from Garsington, and he mentions it," she answered carelessly.
"Telegram from Garsington! Hence these smiles," thought he.

"I suppose that she is going to-morrow." "I have some other news for you, Miss Granger," went on Lady Honoria.
"Your canoe has been washed ashore, very little injured.

The old boatman--Edward, I think they call him--has found it; and your gun in it too, Geoffrey.

It had stuck under the seat or somewhere.


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