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creature from among Max's specimens; but he saw that she did not look at it.
"Why did you say that?" she demanded.
"Certainly," he said, "I must ask myself what your father would have thought, if he could have been here these last two days and watched the actions of the man he had chosen as your trustee."
"He would have been quite satisfied, I think," she said abruptly.
"And you? I mean I do not know exactly how you regard me now since, after my pretense of having the stone, you have found that I had nothing to do with its disappearance."
"You have never, Mr. Hereford—as my trustee—showed very plainly that it mattered to you what I thought."
But she moved around the room now, and
