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The Secret Passage

CHAPTER XV
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Such a mass of jewelry looked rather out of place in the daylight, but the twilight of the room made the glitter less pronounced.

Jennings thought that Mrs.Herne must have Jewish blood in her veins, seeing she was so fond of gems.

Certainly she was very like Maraquito, even to having eyebrows almost meeting over her thin high nose.

But these, as was her hair, were gray, and her skin lacked the rich coloring of the younger woman.

Jennings rapidly took in the resemblance, and commenced the conversation, more convinced than ever that there was some bond of blood between Mrs.Herne and Senora Gredos.
This belief helped him not a little.
"I daresay Mr.Clancy told you why I wished to see you ?" Mrs.Herne nodded in a stately way.


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