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"I see through you, and despise you thoroughly.
"E. EUSTACE."
She was comparing the two answers together, very much in doubt as to which
should be sent, when there came a message to her by a man whom she knew to
be a policeman, though he did not announce himself as such, and was
dressed in plain clothes. Major Mackintosh sent his compliments to her,
and would wait, upon her that afternoon at three o'clock, if she would
have the kindness to receive him. At the first moment of seeing the man
she felt that after all the rock was what she wanted. Mrs. Carbuncle was
right. She had had troubles and might have more, and the rock was the
thing. But then the more certainly did she become convinced of this by the
presence of the major's messenger, the more clearly did she see the
difficulty of attaining the security which the rock offered. If this
public exposure should fall upon her, Lord Fawn's renewed offer, as she
knew well, would stand for nothing. If once it were known that she had
kept the necklace--her own necklace--under her pillow at Carlisle, he
would want no further justification in repudiating her, were it for the
tenth time.
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