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The Secret Passage

CHAPTER X
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No, I didn't.

I gave it to Juliet." "You are certain ?" "Positive! I can't make out how it came into Maraquito's house." Jennings pondered.

"Perhaps Basil may have given it to her.

It is to his interest on behalf of his mother to make trouble between you and Miss Saxon.

Moreover, if it is as I surmise, it shows that Mrs.
Octagon intended to stop the marriage, if she could, even before her sister died." "Ah! And it shows that the death of Miss Loach gave her a chance of asserting herself and stopping the marriage." "Well, she might have hesitated to do that before, as Miss Loach might not have left her fortune to Juliet if the marriage did not take place." Cuthbert nodded and spoke musingly: "After all, the old woman liked me, and I was the nephew of the man who loved her in her youth.


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