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The Tempting of Tavernake

CHAPTER, XV
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I should not believe that you could do anything wrong." Her hand touched his for a moment and he was repaid.
"Don't think too well of me," she begged.

"I don't want to disappoint you." Some one pushed open the swing doors and she started nervously.

It was only a waiter who passed through into the bar.
"What I think of you," Tavernake said slowly, "nothing could alter, but because I am stupid, I suppose, there is quite a good deal that I cannot understand.

I cannot understand, for instance, why they should suspect you of having anything to do with your husband's disappearance.

You can prove where you were when he left you ?" "Quite easily," she answered, "only, unfortunately, no one seems to have seen him go.


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