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Hilda Wade

CHAPTER V
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I will wait and conquer." Sebastian answered nothing.

He strode into the laboratory alone, tall, grim, unbending, and let himself sink into his easy chair, looking up with a singular and somewhat sinister smile at his bottles of microbes.
After a minute he stirred the fire, and bent his head forward, brooding.
He held it between his hands, with his elbows on his knees, and gazed moodily straight before him into the glowing caves of white-hot coal in the fireplace.

That sinister smile still played lambent around the corners of his grizzled moustaches.
I moved noiselessly towards the door, trying to pass behind him unnoticed.

But, alert as ever, his quick ears detected me.

With a sudden start, he raised his head and glanced round.


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