It do seem to us both, that, under the circumstances, you might feel disposed to find the money ?" Enid looked down as she answered, falteringly: "I told Piper some time ago that it was quite impossible for me to do anything of the kind." In her fear and distress she uttered the words more loudly than she was aware, and the woman looked round at the closed door with an apprehensive look: "Don't speak so loud.

We don't want to tell everyone our business," she said sharply.
Now she came quite close up to her victim, for by now Enid Crofton knew that she was in very truth this woman's victim.
"You think it over," whispered Madame Flora.

"We're not in a 'urry to a day or two.

And look here, Modam, I'll be open with you! If you'll do that for Piper, it'll be in full discharge of anything you owe 'im--d'you take my meaning ?" Enid Crofton got up slowly from her chair almost as an automaton might have done.

She wanted to say that she did not in the least know what Mrs.
Piper _did_ mean.