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146 OUT OF IIER SPIIEHE.<br />

cravat was t<strong>her</strong>e, or anything else that<br />

might throw light on the matter. He,<br />

himself must be detained, at least till this<br />

inquiiy was over, and the police were<br />

directed to proceed directly to his apart-<br />

ments, and make search.<br />

Audley Dale flushed wdth anger. To<br />

have the mere possibility admitted <strong>of</strong> his<br />

being a criminal, and a criminal <strong>of</strong> so deep<br />

a dye, was something almost incredible in<br />

its absurdity ! But to have his rooms<br />

invaded, his drawers and desk ransacked<br />

and spied into by rude hands and vulgar<br />

eyes, was something that roused the<br />

patrician element in him to its fiercest.<br />

He woke up out <strong>of</strong> his usual languid gen-<br />

tleness, much as he might have done at the<br />

call to battle, and surveying the <strong>of</strong>ficials with<br />

ineffable contempt, observed, " Stubbs, my<br />

man, has the keys <strong>of</strong> my drawers. Unless<br />

you think it necessary to gratify your<br />

curiosity by going over everything they

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