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THE GRAY MASK
"Surely, Thompson, there isn't as much evidence as all that. Come. We ought to get back to town."
As they went down the stairs Garth wondered that his success borrowed its chief value from its effect on Nora. As large as the satisfaction of clearing an innocent and harassed man, loomed the fact that he had, indeed, provoked her praise.
At the turn their hands met in the darkness. He rejoiced that the warmth of her fingers lingered momentarily in his.
