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"I am an old friend of Lord Sutcombe's; and I have come down to inquire after him, to see him if it is possible." "Certainly, sir," said the butler; and he led the way to the drawing-room. But Celia drew Mr. Clendon into the library. "Stay with me here," she begged him. "I will go up to the Marquess's room and see if he is well enough to be told that you are here.
Miss Grant is acting as librarian at Lord Sutcombe's house, at Thexford Hall." "Lord Sutcombe!" muttered Derrick, with an imperceptible start. The colour again flooded his face; his gratitude, his joy were so great that, for a moment, they rendered him speechless, and his voice was broken when he could command it.
"They're not at the bank; they're in the safe in Lord Sutcombe's dressing-room," she said, unthinkingly. Her eyes were still averted from him, and she did not see the sudden change in his face; it had grown absolutely white. "Oh!" he said indifferently, too indifferently. "In the safe upstairs, are they? Then he meant giving them to you? Well, they're all right there.
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