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Sylvia listened almost placidly to this strange statement of Bevill's.
After what she had gone through the last hour or two, nothing seemed impossible or out of the question. What was going to happen in the next hour or two she neither knew nor cared. By sheer good luck, and because these people had accepted her statements implicitly, she had averted what a little time ago had appeared to her to be a terrible danger. No longer was there any chance of her being compelled to face a police inquiry in connection with an attempt to obtain money by false pretences. And now she knew that, whatever happened, her father would be safe so far as Professor John Bevill was concerned.