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" The two men were quite unconstrained for the moment in the natural interest of a subject foreign to their difficult mutual relations. Randal Ducie s head was thrown up, his eyes glowed; he was look ing at the horse with a sort of glad admiration an expression which Paula well remembered. Floyd- Rosney s eyes narrowed as they scanned successively the points of the fine animal, his own face calm, patronizing, approving. Neither of them, for the moment, was thinking of her. She had followed them... out upon the wide stone portico and stood in the sun, her head tilted a trifle that her broad hat of taupe velvet might shade her eyes. She brought herself potently into the foreground, seizing the fact that Randal was unincumbered with baggage of any sort. "Where is the treasure trove?" she cried. "Surely 248 THE STORY OF DUCIEHURST you are not going to leave it in the ruins of this old mansion!" Her husband flashed at her a glance of reproof which would once have silenced her, abashed to the ground.
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