A Fair Fraud — page 109: what you’re looking at

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98 A Fair Fraud ‘I am sure I can’t guess.’ ‘Did you notice that man who has come to stop in the house? Do you know who he is?’ ‘Do you mean Captain Drury’s great friend, Mr Naylor ?’ ‘Yes. Did you speak to him ?’ ‘No; Captain Drury wanted to introduce me to him, but after dinner he sat talking to the little Blake girl at the piano, and then | went into the billiarj-room to watch the play, and so there was no opportunity. Captain Drury tells me he is a very shy man, and not fond of ladies’ society.’ ‘} don’t know about his being shy,’ said her mother, rather grimly. ‘I didn’t find him shy when I stood opposite to him in the witness- box.’ ‘Mother, you don’t mean to tell me—-!’ and Hester sat suddenly bolt upright in her chair. ‘Yes, that is what I do mean to tell you,’ nodded Mrs Lane. ‘He ig the barrister who cross-examined me in that wretched trial! I flatter myself he didn’t get much rise out - of me, though!’ ‘It’s so long ago he may have forgotten you, faltered Hester. She had turned very pale. ‘Forgotten! Not he! He stared at me fixedly across the table to-night the moment he <S uu GOMMGIOO (GO)