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on in your head, anyhow, Nadine?" he said, evasively, thinking it best to temporize with the raging fury confronting him. "I heard all about it," she panted, hoarsely. "Then some one has been cruelly maligning me," he cried; "and you, of all people in the world, Nadine, should not have believed it. Hush! some one is coming. I hear footsteps. Meet me later. I want to have a long talk with you. But, by the way, what are you doing here at this house, Nadine?" "Did I not tell you that I answered Doctor Crandall's advertisement for a nurse, and that this is my errand here? But what are _you_ doing here?" "I may as well tell you the truth, Nadine," he said, despairingly, seeing that it would all come out sooner or later. "I--I have been studying medicine since I met you, and they have engaged me as physician. But now that surprises are in order, I suppose you know who lives here?" "No," she answered. "It is your old friend Garner, who used to be in the book-bindery. He has acquired sudden wealth--Heaven knows how. His mother is living with him, and also that pretty girl whom I used to think was so quiet--Miss Staples." Before Nadine could reply, her amazement was so great, the door was opened by the quiet footman, and they were ushered into the drawing-room. Kendal had barely time to whisper to Nadine: "These people do not know that I am the same one whom they used to know as the car conductor. Don't give me away," ere the door opened, and Mrs. Garner made her appearance. "Ah! you have brought a nurse with you, doctor," she said, in a tone of great relief. So saying, she led the way to the sick-room. Nadine's entrance caused the greatest surprise to both Mr. Garner and Jessie. No one thought of noticing the plain, dark little figure half hidden by the curtains in the bay window, or they would have seen Dorothy start and fairly gasp for breath as her eyes fell upon the nurse Kendal had brought with him, and heard them discuss the point that Nadine must be installed there as nurse. Her brain fairly reeled, and it flashed over her mind what a villain Kendal really was. She had quite believed all this long time that he had parted from Nadine Holt, and here he had been keeping up Nadine's friendship clandestinely through it all. Of course Iris Vincent was expecting to marry him. It was clear that Kendal had a good many irons in the fire. She only wished that Iris Vincent knew of his frien
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