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over her face. ‘The trial is to come off before very long, and since my friends will doubtless be present at it, inquiries will, of course, be made for me; and, tet me say, Mr. Carpenter, you may tind things get- ting rather warm for you about that time.” It was evident from the man’s looks that he had not taken this into consideration, or, if he had, he had probably reckoned upon bringing her to his own terms long before that. He arose from his seat impatiently. “T shall find you less impatient and in a more con- ciliatory frame of mind a few days hence,” he re- marked, as he moved toward the door. Ruby also arose, “You have not yet answered my question, Mr. Car- penter,’’ she said. “What question 2?” “Tn whose house am I?’ “Itis the house of a respectable physician, a par- ticular friend of mine, one who sometimes is pre- vailed upon to treat patients of a refractory and will- ful nature,’ he replied, watching her with an evil sinile as he made the statement. Ruby grew pale. “Tt was not a pleasant thing to know that she might bein the house with people who were not sane. Still she believed that he would not be likely to bring her to aplace where she would be in danger of per- sonal violence. “A ‘particular friend’ of yours, and a respectable physician?’ she repeated, with a sarcastic emphasis that made her listener’s ears tingle. ‘Has he many patients ?”” “No, he has not,’ Edmund Carpenter answered, gravely, and not unkindly. “I did not intend you showld know this, forI do not wish you to be tor- tured by any fears of that nature. The doctor has only two or three patients here at the present, and they are pertectly harmless, and coutined to another portion of the house.” “Ain I supposed to be a aki ant |p Becemiepo ge coin