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The passioned intensity in Audrey's voice touched Denver and appealed to his kindly nature. Cynical and worldly as he was, he had every sympathy with those in distress, and that Audrey Blair was in sore need of a friend he did not doubt. Something very much out of the common had happened which he would know all about in good time, but this was no place for the interchange of confidences. He smiled down into the anxious, white face.
"You must tell me all about it," he said. "I can do nothing to help you unless I have some sort of idea as to the source of the trouble. And you will have to be very candid with me. I've got a pretty shrewd idea of the cause of the dilemma--a trouble which, obviously, Hermann shares with you. I suppose you are not engaged to him by any chance?"