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The Lion and The Mouse

CHAPTER XII
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Going away?
Nonsense! Determined, eh?
Well, I can't keep you here if you've made up your mind.

You want to say good-bye.

Come up in about five minutes and I'll introduce you to a very interesting person," He laughed and hung up the receiver.

Shirley was all unstrung, trying to overcome the emotion which her discovery had caused her, and in a strangely altered voice, the result of the nervous strain she was under, she said: "You want me to come here ?" She looked up from the letters she was reading across to Ryder, who was standing watching her on the other side of the desk.

He caught her glance and, leaning over to take some manuscript, he said: "Yes, I don't want these papers to get--" His eye suddenly rested on the letters she was holding.


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