"O please, please don't let that man find me here." Conrad Lagrauge looked and saw James Rutlidge coming down the path toward the arched entrance to the garden, which was directly across from the arbor.
"Stop him, please stop him," whispered the girl, her hand upon his arm.
"Stay here until I get him out of sight," said the novelist quickly.

"I won't let him come into the garden.

When we are gone, you can make your escape.

Don't forget the music for me, and the key at the gate." He spoke to Czar, and with the dog obediently at heel went forward to meet Mr.Rutlidge, who had called for Mrs.Taine and Louise.
But all the while that Conrad Lagrange was talking to the man, and leading him toward the door of the studio, he was wondering--why that look of fear upon the face of the girl in the garden?
What had Sibyl Andres to do with James Rutlidge?
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