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The Intriguers

CHAPTER II
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"The lady I saw at the Frontenac, with the autocratic manners?
It's curious, but she reminds me of somebody I knew, and the name's the same.

I wonder----" He broke off, and Millicent Graham studied him as he stood in the moonlight.

She did not think he recognized her, and perhaps he was hardly justified in supposing that his timely aid at the gangway dispensed with the need for an introduction, but she liked his looks, which she remembered well.

She had no fear of this man's presuming too far; and his surprise when she mentioned Mrs.Keith, had roused her interest.
"Yes," she said; "I believe it was my employer you knew." He did not follow this lead.
"Are you supposed to sit up all night and watch the animals for her ?" he asked.
"Only for an hour or two.

The steamboat people refused to have them in the saloon, and the maid should have relieved me.


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