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ever trying it again. I think that Miss Mannering needn't know about this, certainly I shall not tell her."
"What does she know? Did she send you to help me?" the lieutenant asked anxiously.
"She asked my advice, that's all. Unfortunately she saw the name 'Assassins'; but I think you can explain that easily enough, if you don't care to confess the truth."
"How can I explain it?" Cameron said thoughtfully.
"Why, tell her that the club met to kill time," said Astro, "and that at that you are a tolerably successful assassin."
