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Colonel Thorndyke’s Secret

CHAPTER IX
19/29

I suppose the interest of this 15,000 pounds would be enough for Mrs.Cunningham and I to live comfortably on in London ?" "Yes," Mark said; "it will, at 5 per cent, bring in 750 pounds a year." "Then I shall remain Millicent Conyers to the world.

There is nothing to prevent that, is there ?" she said almost defiantly.
"No," he replied thoughtfully.

"The rents of this estate might accumulate.

I suppose the solicitors would see after that; and as I shall be away it will, of course, make no difference to me.

Were I to stay in the neighborhood I could not consent to live as my father did, in a false position; but even then I might give out that the property had only been left to my father during his lifetime, and that it had now gone elsewhere, without saying whom it had gone to.


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