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The Living Link by James De Mille
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To her amazement she saw the black servant, Hugo, standing not far away.
As she raised her eyes he took off his cap, and grinned as usual. The
sight of him gave Edith a great shock, and excited new suspicions and
fears within her.

Had she been followed?

She must have been. She had been watched and tracked. All her desperate
efforts had been noted down to be reported to Wiggins--all her long and
fruitless search, her baffled endeavors, her frustrated hopes!

It was too much.

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CHAPTER VII.


A PARLEY WITH THE JAILERS.

Coming as it did close upon her baffled efforts to escape, this
discovery of Hugo proclaimed to Edith at once most unmistakably the fact
that she was a prisoner. She was walled in. She was under guard and
under surveillance. She could not escape without the consent of Wiggins,
nor could she move about without being tracked by the spy of Wiggins. It
was evident also that both the porter and the black servant Hugo were
devoted to their master, and were beyond the reach both of persuasion
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