[A Fascinating Traitor by Richard Henry Savage]@TWC D-Link bookA Fascinating Traitor CHAPTER IX 43/75
"I'll follow your advice, and I'll not leave here till I know more from you.
I'll follow her to Japan, but I'll see her again." "That's the talk, Major!" cried the happy old soldier, who felt something crisp in his hand now.
"Distrust old Hugh! He'll lie to ye and trap ye! Watch him! He's capable of anything." The carriage then stopped with a crash and Hardwicke sprang out lightly.
"Make no sign! Trust to me! I'll come to ye!" was Simpson's last word. Before Simpson had discovered in the marble house the pleasing figures on a ten-pound note, Harry Hardwicke, striding up and down his room, in all the ecstasy of a happy lover, had kissed a hundred times a little silver card case--a mere school girl's poor treasure, but priceless now--for within it was a hastily severed tress of gold-brown hair, tied with a bit of blue ribbon.
A scrap of paper in penciled words brought to him "Confirmation stronger than Holy Writ." "I will write or telegraph when not watched.
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