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Quain's voice recalling him, he turned to discover his host stumbling through a neighbouring vale, and obeying a peremptory wave of the elder man's hand, descended, accompanied by an avalanche in miniature. "Better hurry," shouted Amber, as soon as he could make himself heard above the screaming of the gale. "Wind's freshening; it looks like mean weather." "Really?"
You've lived several years with your father in India, went back to London to 'come out' and are returning, having been presented at the Court of St. James. Your mother was an American girl, a schoolmate of Mrs. Quain's. I'm afraid that's the whole sum of my knowledge of you." "You've turned the tables fairly, Mr. Amber," she admitted. "And Mr. Quain wrote you all that?"
Quain's was the second letter. Having merely glanced at the heading and signature, Labertouche had reserved the rather formidable document for Quain had written fully as probably of scant importance, to be dealt with at his absolute leisure. But as he read his expression grew more and more serious and perturbed.
When completely deserted, Lawford with fumbling fingers opened Quain's 'Dictionary of Medicine. He had never had much curiosity, and had always hated what he disbelieved, but none the less he had heard occasionally of absurd and questionable experiments. He remembered even to have glanced over reports of cases in the newspapers concerning disappearances, loss of memory, dual personality.
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