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'Yes, yes. It was a bright frosty day, and by the time Mrs. Hackit arrived at the Vicarage, the sun was near its setting. There was a carriage and pair standing at the gate, which she recognized as Dr Madeley's, the physician from Rotherby. She entered at the kitchen door that she might avoid knocking, and quietly question Nanny.

From his parlour window he could very well observe the houses opposite without fear of drawing attention from any one on that side; and so it happened that, without deliberate purpose of espial, he watched the door of Eve Madeley's residence for a long time; till, in fact, he grew weary of the occupation. No one had entered; no one had come forth.

"On her side, never for a moment. I pursued and pestered her, that was all." "Do you mind telling me who the girl was that I saw you with at Dudley?" "A friend of Miss Madeley's, over here from London on a holiday. I have tried to make use of her to get her influence on my side " Narramore sprang from the corner of the table on which he had been sitting. "Why couldn't she hold her tongue!

I'd tell you her address, but I don't remember it. I've never been in London myself. Martha knows it, of course. She might look in to-night, and if she does I'll ask her." Hilliard allowed this suggestion to pass without remark. He was not quite sure that he desired to know Miss Madeley's address.

A man came by, and Patty broke off. Hilliard waited for her to continue, but Patty kept her eyes down and said no more. "Did you think," he asked, "that I was likely to be in Miss Madeley's confidence?" "You've known her a long time, haven't you?" This proof of reticence, or perhaps of deliberate misleading, on Eve's part astonished Hilliard.

He replied evasively that he had very little acquaintance with Miss Madeley's affairs, and added: "May she not simply have changed her lodgings?" "Why should she go so suddenly, and without letting me know?" "What had the landlady to say?" "She heard her tell the cab to drive to Mudie's the library, you know."