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Two or three weeks passed away, during which Florence studied assiduously. She had an incentive to exertion in her father's haggard looks and increasing uneasiness. Although he tried to hide it from her, he was evidently dissatisfied with the progress of affairs.
"Mason assured me that I should receive interest on the money invested, and have a certain number of shares made over to me before this time," he said, upon one occasion. "But nothing is done, and he puts me off with vexatious excuses. Not but what it's all right, my dear, only I'm a little impatient, and shan't feel easy until that legacy is restored to you. Where is your Aunt Margaret? " he added abruptly.