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CARL WALRAVEN, No ---- Fifth Avenue, New York."
Very slowly the Reverend Mr. Rashleigh read this paragraph to its end.
He laid down the paper and looked thoughtfully at the cat.
"Extraordinary!" murmured the Reverend Raymond, half aloud--"most
extraordinary! Like a scene in a novel; like nothing in real life. Has
the earth opened and swallowed her up? Has she gone off with some
younger and handsomer lover? Or has she been decoyed from home by the
machinations of some enemy? She had many, poor child! That unfortunate
Sir Roger is like a man insane. He is offering half his fortune for her
recovery. It is really very, very extraordinary. Quite a romance in real
life. Come in!"
There had been a tap at the study door; a maid-servant entered.
"There's a young woman down-stairs, sir, wishes to see you most
particular."
"Ah, indeed! Who is she? What is her business with me?"
"I don't know, sir. Something very important, she says."
"Show her up."
The girl departed, ran down-stairs, ran up again, followed by a
respectable-looking young woman of pleasing aspect.


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