block, he wrote the Spanish address out, and under it,
"Father can come back on or about August 19. Boutet
is expecting him."

He hesitated for some time over the signature. And
then, at last, he put the English Christian name of
"Emily."

He pushed the book back, well out of sight, then
shutting the safe hastened downstairs again.

At any moment Polly might return home; they were
early folk at the Deanery.

Anna had already got up. "I think I must be going
home," she observed. "My ladies will soon be back.
I do not like them to find the house empty -- though
Mrs. Otway knows that I am here."

"Do you ever have occasion to go to the Post Office?"
he said thoughtfully.

And she answered, "Yes; I have a Savings Bank
account. Do you advise me, Mr. Hegner, to take my
money out of the Savings Bank just now? Will they
not be taking all the money for the war?"

"I think I should take it out. Have you much in?"
As he spoke, he was filling up a foreign telegraph form,
printing the words in.

"Not very much," she said cautiously. "But a little
sum -- yes."

"How much?"

She hesitated uncomfortably. "I have forty pounds
in the English Savings Bank," she said.

"If I were you" -- he looked at her fixedly -- "I should
take it all out. Make them give it you in sovereigns.
And then, if you will bring it to me here, I shall be
able to give you for that -- let me see----" he waited a
moment. "Yes, if you do not mind taking bank-notes

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