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Eve’s Ransom

CHAPTER XV
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I shall go back satisfied, at all events." "And return to your old work ?" "I don't know.

It depends on all sorts of things.

We won't talk of it just yet." Patty approached, and Hilliard turned to her with a bright, jesting face.
Midway in August, on his return home one afternoon, the concierge let him know that two English gentlemen had been inquiring for him; one of them had left a card.

With surprise and pleasure Hilliard read the name of Robert Narramore, and beneath it, written in pencil, an invitation to dine that evening at a certain hotel in the Rue de Provence.

As usual, Narramore had neglected the duties of a correspondent; this was the first announcement of his intention to be in Paris.


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