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The Vultures by Henry Seton Merriman
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VI

THE VULTURES

"I suppose," Miss Mangles was saying--"I suppose, Joseph, that Lady
Orlay has been interested in the work without our knowing it?"

"It is possible, Jooly--it is possible," replied Mr. Joseph P. Mangles,
looking with a small, bright, speculative eye out of the window of his
private sitting-room in a hotel in Northumberland Avenue.

Miss Mangles was standing behind him, and held in her hand an
invitation-card notifying that Lady Orlay would be at home that same
evening from nine o'clock till midnight.

"This invitation," said the recipient, "accompanied as it is by a
friendly note explaining that the shortness of the invitation lies in
the fact that we only arrived the day before yesterday, seems to point
to it, Joseph. It seems to indicate that England is prepared to give me
a welcome."

"On the face of it, Jooly, it would seem--just that."

Mr. Mangles continued to gaze with a speculative eye into Northumberland
Avenue. If, as Cartoner had suggested, the profession of which Mr.
Joseph P. Mangles was a tardy ornament, needed above all things a
capacity for leaving things unsaid, the American diplomatist was
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