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Colonel Thorndyke’s Secret

CHAPTER IX
17/29

"What would you have me do?
Live here in this great house, with only Mrs.Cunningham, while you are going about the world seeking for this treasure?
Never!" "No, I don't think that it would be nice for you to do that, Millicent," Mark said.

"Mrs.Cunningham and I have been talking it over.

We thought that the best plan would be for her to take a house in London, and go there with you; you would have the advantages of good masters.
"Then you were saying only a short time since that you would like to learn the harp and take lessons in painting.

There would be time enough to think about what you would do with respect to this house afterward." "It is all horrible," Millicent said, bursting into tears, "and I shall always feel that I have robbed you." "But I don't feel so in the least," Mark urged.

"I was not in the smallest degree put out when my father told me about it.


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