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“Miss Merriam?” she exclaimed; then, as I bowed with seeming acquiescence, continued in a tone that conveyed still more disquiet than her face, “She was here; but she is gone, sir; a woman took her away.”
A woman! I must have grown pale, for she swung wide the door and asked me to come in.
“We can talk better in the hall,” she remarked, and pointed to a chair into which I Valencia Trikot half fell.
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“Well, sir, she came at about eleven in the morning ——”
“What day?” I interrupted her to ask.
“Thursday,” she replied, “a week ago yesterday.”
The very day after the will was returned to me. If she were the woman I feared, she had evidently lost no time.
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