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THE TREACHEROUS HINDU. WOMAN 63 another moment here. Upon that event I shall offer no observation.”’ ‘“ But — but,”’ said the duke, in almost a dying tone, ‘you will take this cheque, you will settle this business for Mr. Armytage — nm ‘“No, my lord,” interrupted Coleman! ‘“‘T decline your Grace’s intervention altogether. Mr. Armytage will re- main with me, to talk over these matters. At his peril will he disobey me.’ “ But, Mr. Coleman,” gasped forth the duke, with a desperate but vain effort to assume an air of composure, ‘as Mr. Armytage’s friend you will at least suffer me to speak to him in private.”’ “Not another syllable, my lord,’ exclaimed Coleman, resolutely. ‘‘ And now [I insist that your Grace immediately leave my office.”’ y Armytage, with his elbows resting upon the table, had buried his face in his hands, and he was moaning lament- ably, while the words, ‘‘ Oh, my poor dear Zoe!’’ escaped twice or thrice from his lips. The Duke of Marchmont lingered with the air of a man whose desperate circumstances impelled him to make one more effort to save himself from the utter destruction which he saw to be imminent; but when he looked at the sternly resolute countenance of the lawyer, he was com- pelled to admit the conviction that everything was indeed hopeless in that quarter. He accordingly issued from the room, reeling and staggering as if under the influence of wine. | Mr. Coleman suffered a minute or two to elapse, in order to give the duke time for departure, and he then summoned one of his clerks from below. ‘““ Mr. Price,’’ he said in a hurried whisper to this clerk, “you will follow the Duke of Marchmont, you will watch him day and night, you will dog him whithersoever he goes, and if he attempts to leave the country, you will at once give him into custody.” The clerk started with astonishment, and it was a perfect consternation that seized upon him when Coleman whis- pered a few more words in his ears. The lawyer placed a sum of money in the clerk’s hand for whatsoever expenses might be incurred in the mission now entrusted to him, GOMIIGDOG SS (S©)