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Bad Hugh

CHAPTER V
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"A burglar, I dare say, and you were fortunate, all of you, in not being stolen from your beds as you lay sleeping." "Oh, we keep our doors locked," was Anna's demure reply.
"Midnight, as I live!" he exclaimed, and was glad of an excuse for retiring, as he wished now to be alone.
Anna had not asked him half what she had meant to ask concerning Charlie, but she would not keep him longer, and with a kiss upon his handsome brow she sent him away, herself holding the door a little ajar and listening to see what effect the new carpet would have upon him.

It did not have any at first, so much was he absorbed in that man with the scar upon his temple.

Why had he come there, and why had it not been told him before?
His people were so stupid in their letters, never telling what was sure to interest him most.

But what good could it have done had he known of the mysterious visit?
None whatever--at least nothing particular had resulted from it, he was sure.
"It must have been just after one of his sprees, when he is always more than half befogged," he said to himself.

"Possibly he was passing this way and the insane idea seized him to stop and pretend to buy Terrace Hill.


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