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The Lair of the White Worm

CHAPTER XXIV--A STARTLING PROPOSITION
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A word from you of acceptance or refusal is all that is necessary, and we can leave details to be thrashed out by our agents.

Forgive me, won't you, for troubling you in the matter, and believe me, yours very sincerely.
"ARABELLA MARCH." Adam read this over several times, and then, his mind being made up, he went to Mimi and asked if she had any objection.

She answered--after a shudder--that she was, in this, as in all things, willing to do whatever he might wish.
"Dearest, I am willing that you should judge what is best for us.

Be quite free to act as you see your duty, and as your inclination calls.

We are in the hands of God, and He has hitherto guided us, and will do so to His own end." From his wife's room Adam Salton went straight to the study in the tower, where he knew Sir Nathaniel would be at that hour.


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