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Number Seventeen

CHAPTER V
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You see, I happen to know that Mrs.Lester's sad death affects my father in some way, and I realize now that you two were just on pins and needles to get rid of me last night so that you might talk freely." "Miss Forbes, I assure you--" "Wait till I've finished, and you will not be under the necessity of telling me any polite fibs.

You men are all alike.

You think the giddy feminine brain is not fitted to cope with mysteries, and that is where you are utterly mistaken.

A woman's intuition often peers deeper than a man's logic.

I--" "Do forgive me," broke in Theydon despairingly, "but I am really most anxious to know how and where I can get a word with your father.


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