[Number Seventeen by Louis Tracy]@TWC D-Link bookNumber Seventeen CHAPTER XVII 20/24
Come for the gathering of the clan.
We take no refusal.
Forbes." Theydon traveled north that night.
He reached the glen in time for dinner next evening and passed a few delightfully miserable days in Evelyn's company. At last, feeling that he was losing grip and might act foolishly, he announced to Forbes, one night when a glorious moon was shining, and he knew that Evelyn was awaiting him in the garden, that he must leave for London next day. "Why ?" inquired his host.
"Has something unforeseen happened? I thought you meant remaining here till the end of the month at the earliest." "I'm sorry," said Theydon, chewing a cigar viciously as a means toward maintaining his self-control.
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