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158 The Craze of Christina. must go to Calais—it is all settled, really,’’ she added hurriedly. As indeed it was, for she had already ar- ranged with her father and sister to cross the channel on the morrow, and she had that morn- ing heard from Ella to say they had engaged rooms ata modest hotel in Calais, where their father had once stayed on a former visit to Europe. It was quite impossible to upset all these plans at the last moment, for of course the London lodgings were to be given up. Chris sighed; she felt that much as her better nature revolted against the duplicity she ‘had begun to practise upon this man, yet that she was now powerless to alter the position she had voluntarily assumed. And in her secret heart it must be admitted that she was very glad, for whatever happened in the future, she had dis- covered that she cared too much for Clifford to go out of his life to-day and allow him to forget her entirely. Whether or no she ever became his wife, she must at any rate see him again. The next move would have to be played by him. He must come to Calais. ‘‘Hecan easily get back within a week,’’ she told herself as a salve to her conscience, and she went on to as- sures herself that as long as she was at Calais, and went no farther, she had done no real harm Comichbooks.co