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WHEN BERTRAM CAME HOME.
It was a little after half-past three o'clock that afternoon when Bertram Henshaw hurried up Beacon Street toward his home.

He had been delayed, and he feared that Miss Winthrop would already have reached the house.

Mindful of what Billy had said that morning, he knew how his wife would fret if he were not there when the guest arrived.

The sight of what he surmised to be Miss Winthrop's limousine before his door hastened his steps still more.