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The very morning after Madeline had despatched her letter, a telegram was handed in for Miss West, 2, Solferino Place. The landlady herself mounted, breathless, to the attics, with the tan-coloured envelope in her hand.
"I was just for sending it away, Mrs. Wynne," she gasped, surveying her with an inquiring eye; "but it came into my mind as I'd show it to you on the chance."