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The frozen horror that gripped Cecil's heart and seemed to hold her numb and helpless to the very soul left her brain clear and alert enough. Even in that very first moment of peril she was quick to see the danger. She could read it in the startled look on Barclay's face, in the eyes of a man who had known her from childhood, and had been one of her best and most stalwart friends.
"What does it mean?" she murmured. "My dear old friend, I am prepared to swear to you--"