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They entered the library from the corridor and placed themselves behind the closed curtain which hung over the doorway. It was easy so to arrange the edge of the drapery as to observe, without exciting suspicion, whatever was going on in the next room. Mrs. Zant's brother-in-law was approaching her at the time when Mr. Rayburn saw him again.
"If you mean grateful to me," Mr. Rayburn remarked, "I don't quite understand " "You don't quite understand? Is it possible that you have forgotten our conversation when I first had the honor of receiving you? Look at Mrs. Zant again." Mr. Rayburn looked; and Mrs. Zant's brother-in-law explained himself. "You notice the return of her color, the healthy brightness of her eyes.
"I have come here," he answered, "under circumstances which require apology as well as explanation." Mr. Zant's highly polished manner betrayed signs of alarm; his suspicions pointed to a formidable conclusion a conclusion that shook him to the innermost recesses of the pocket in which he kept his money. "The numerous demands on me " he began. Mr. Rayburn smiled.
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