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And a small, strongly built man with grave eyes sat by her in the ambulance, and told her stories of it with a fertility of invention that amazed the doctor who had her in charge. When Mr. Rimmon's agents called next day to make the preliminary arrangements for carrying out his agreement with Wickersham, they found the room empty.
Rimmon passed down the street he knew that he had reached a crisis in his life. He went to see Wickersham, but that gentleman was in no mood for condolences. Everything had gone against him. He was facing utter ruin. Rimmon's upbraiding angered him. "By the way, you are the very man I wanted to see," he said grimly.
"She is absolutely mad, poor thing, I understand," he sighed, with unmistakable sympathy in his voice. "Yes," Mrs. Lancaster assented, her thoughts drifting away. He watched her keenly, and next moment began again. "I heard she had got hold of Mr. Rimmon's name and declares that he married us." Mrs. Lancaster returned to the present, and he went on: "I don't know how she got hold of it.
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