Success - A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
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is bank-high and over."
He had crossed the platform to her. Now she raised her deep-set, quiet eyes and rested them on the girl. That the station should harbor a visitor at that hour was not surprising. But the beauty of the stranger caught Miss Van Arsdale's regard, and her bearing held it. "A passenger, Ban?" she asked, lowering her voice. "Yes, Miss Camilla." "Left over from the wreck?" He nodded. "You came in the nick of time. I don't quite know what to do with her." "Why didn't she go on the relief train?" "She didn't show up until last night." "Where did she stay the night?" "Here." "In your office?" "In my room. I worked in the office." "You should have brought her to me." |
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