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Colonel Grey flung a suit of pyjamas and a few toilet accessories into a handbag and started out for the station. He was very much perturbed. Against his judgment he was greatly affected by Mrs Lawless' forebodings of the previous night; her softly uttered, prophetic -- they seemed to him prophetic -- words: "I have always felt those letters would cost another life."
And as a foundation for this belief, Tom Hayhurst had turned up with his tale of suspicion and his unreserved misgivings that had insensibly given rise to similar doubts in his own mind. What a finish to a life of failure! . If this, indeed, should prove the end! He recalled his recently formulated plans for the man's future. the chance he had thought to give him; and a hard look came into his eyes, his lips tightened. Those ashes in the grate had indeed cost dear!