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He saw her glance at the desk clock before she answered. "Rather good, I think."
"I see; so you will soon be through?"
"I believe so," she answered, applying herself again to her task. He stayed in the room with her now, again occupying himself at the other desk. Listening he could not make out the tread of the tall man in the hall. But there was now, in Lorine's manner, almost a noticeable tension. She questioned him now and then upon details of the accounts before her; but much more definitely than before,—she was waiting. He caught her glance again at the desk-clock. Something in her manner now started a different suspicion through him. He leaned forward and drew toward him the telephone. Lorine turned at his movement and observed
