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NEMESIS.
Take heed of still waters.
Despite his assertion to Lady Cantourne, Guy Oscard stayed on in the gloomy house in Russell Square.

He had naturally gone thither on his return from Africa, and during the months that followed he did not find time to think much of his own affairs.

Millicent Chyne occupied all his thoughts--all his waking moments.

It is marvellous how busily employed an active-minded young lady can keep a man.
In the ill-lighted study rendered famous by the great history which had emanated in the manuscript therefrom, Guy Oscard had interviewed sundry great commercial experts, and a cheque for forty-eight thousand pounds had been handed to him across the table polished bright by his father's studious elbow.