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Observer, Volume 1, Issue 23, 19 February 1881, Page 234

mixed np. It was, therefore, palpable to Cooke that his creditor would either pay up, or, what was still more probable, be nnable to pay and ask for time. Up to one o'clock in the afterjioon there was no sign of Brownpath, and Cooke, whose nerves were being affected by the unwonted inaction and solitude, could not help giving way to apprehension. "Suppose," he reasoned within himself, "he were to write to me instead of giving me a verbal explanation. But surely it would be difficult for any one to be indifferent to meeting her again." However blase he may be, she must have produced some impression upon him." Cooke could not realise the possibility of Mrs. Hardcastle passing unnoticed, nor that anybody could see her once without wishing to see her a second time. At three o'clock his nervous irritation Avas allayed, his doubts were at an end — a waiter announced that somebody wished to see him. "Show him in," said Cooke. [To le continued.]