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88 A Fair Fraud_ to-morrow morning, he would not believe me. He would only be indignant and angry and quarrel with me. Because a man in love as he is—desperately in love’—he was looking at Marion earnestly, and to his astonishment he perceived something which swept over her face at his words. Mr Naylor was from habit and profession a keen student of human physi- ognomy, and he was startled as well as surprised to see that sudden cloud acrcss the fair young face he was looking at. It was as though someone had suddenly slashed at her with a sharp knife. She recovered herself in an instant with marvellous self-control, and he went on more composedly and with eyes averted from her face, ‘As I say, a man in love is always obstinate and pig-headed—one only makes an enemy of him by telling him home-truths about the woman he is for the time infatuated with.’ Somehow he worded it differently this time. ‘Then how could I—?’ ‘You could not. I do not ask you to attempt so hopeless a task. It is to the girl, Miss Lane—I suppose we had better call her so—that you must address yourself.’ ‘Oh, Mr Naylor!’ ‘Don’t be afraid. A few words will do it. You might go to her privately—to-night, if possible. You have only to tell her that every- GOMMGIOO <S (GO) uu