w a long breath.
"I will go to the city of the hills," she said softly, "and this man,"
she shrugged her shoulders, "I do not care what happens to him," she
said, with a smile of amusement at the pallid Marcus.
"Then he shall go to Tangier alone."
But Marcus Stepney did not go alone. For the last two miles of the
journey he had carried a bag containing the greater part of five million
francs that the girl had brought from the boat. Jean did not remember
this until she was on her way to the city of the hills, and by that time
money did not interest her.
THE END.
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES.
The following typographical errors in the text were corrected as
detailed here.
In the text: "Had she known Mr. Marcus Stepney as well as Jean knew him
... " the name "Joan" was corrected to "Jean."
The words "mud-guard" and "taxi-cab" are inconsistently hyphenated in
the original.
In the text: '"Poor soul," said Jack dryly. "but ... "' the period
after "dryly" was corrected to a comma.
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