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"Excuse me, Miss Lorena, I do not," he declared quickly. "Only we have heard so many threats of exposure that to cease to regard them seriously. Mr Statham's high reputation is sufficient guarantee to the public."
"I quite admit that," answered the girl. "It is not the present that is in question, but the past."