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A Lost Leader

CHAPTER IX
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I shall have to wear it to-night." "I will ring for her directly," the girl answered.

"So that was Sir Leslie Borrowdean, mother! Why did he come to see you again so soon ?" "I haven't the least idea," Mrs.Phillimore announced, "but I thought it was very sweet of him.

It seems all the more remarkable when one considers the sort of man he is.

He's very ambitious, you know, and devoted to politics." "Where did you meet him first ?" Hester asked.
"It was at the Metropole at Bexhill," Mrs.Phillimore answered.

"We motored down there one day, and Lena Roberts told me that she heard him inquiring who I was directly we came into the room.


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