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Mistress Wilding

CHAPTER I
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He must be dealt with out of hand, Trenchard opined, and dealt with ruthlessly.
"I think, Anthony," said he, "that we have had words enough.

Shall you be disposing of Mr.Westmacott to-morrow, or must I be doing it for you ?" With a gasp of dismay young Richard twisted in his chair to confront this fresh and unsuspected antagonist.

What danger was this that he had overlooked?
Then, even as he turned, Wilding's voice fell on his ear, and each word of the few he spoke was like a drop of icy water on Westmacott's overheated brain.
"I protest you are vastly kind, Nick.

But I intend, myself, to have the pleasure of killing Mr.Westmacott." And his smile fell now in mockery upon the disillusioned lad.
Crushed by that bolt from the blue, Richard sat as if stunned, the flush receding from his face until his very lips were livid.

The shock had sobered him, and, sobered, he realized in terror what he had done.


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