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They were now at the bottom of the few steps leading up toward the
hotel entrance, and Miss Norvell, removing her hand from the support of
his arm, stood before him outwardly calm.
"Beyond doubt, you refer to my apparent surprise at first hearing Mr.
Farnham's name mentioned?"
He bowed quietly, again fascinated and disarmed by the revelation in
those dark eyes.
"The explanation is quite simple," and the voice exhibited a touch of
coolness easily perceptible. "I chanced to be somewhat acquainted with
this man in the East before--well, before he became a gambler. Of
course, I do not know him now, have not the slightest desire to do so,
but the sudden information that he was actually here, and--and all the
rest--came to me with a shock. Is that sufficient?"
The young man was unsatisfied, and, without doubt, his face quite
clearly exhibited his true feeling. Yet there was that about her
constrained manner which held him to respectful silence, so that for a
moment the hesitation between them grew almost painful.


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