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To the last hour of his life Clive will never forget that swift yet tedious journey to the south undertaken under such strange conditions. Had anyone said to him only yesterday, "Out of the whole human race can you single out your enemy? " he would at once have replied affirmatively with the name of Sefton Culvers. Yet here was he today playing the part of a sworn friend to this man, the part, indeed, that could be expected of none but a sworn friend, starting, at a moment's notice, on a quest out of which all he could hope to receive by way of payment would be the pleasure of looking upon another man's happiness.
For, stifle the thought as he might, again and again would it present itself: "By-and-by you will have to stand by and see this husband and wife kiss each other on the lips, and join hands in reconciliation, and then nothing more will fall to your share but to drop out of their lives forever."