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When Freda recovered her voice, Dick had broken away from her restraining touch, and was moving, in a hesitating sort of way, towards the door.
"Dick? " cried the girl in a frightened whisper, "Listen! I had forgotten why I came. There are men coming here, perhaps to-night, policemen from London, I think. Is -- he -- safe?"